Member

To date, European countries and the United States have provided roughly $3 billion per month to the Ukrainian people in order to keep their Government functioning. I think all Members of this House would endorse that approach, but in the long term, it is neither right nor practical to expect western taxpayers to foot the bill for reconstructing Ukraine when there are legal means for Russia to pay. There can be no credible scenario whereby Russia gets its money back after waging an unprompted war against Ukraine while the victims go uncompensated. That would effectively give the rights of an aggressor precedence over those of its victims.