German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, briefing him about plans to use frozen Russian assets to support Kiev, according to German government spokesman Stefan Kornelius.
Earlier, in an article for the British newspaper Financial Times, Merz proposed providing Ukraine with an interest-free loan of approximately 140 billion euros using frozen Russian assets. The US president and the German chancellor discussed the situation in Ukraine and agreed to continue joint efforts to end the Ukrainian conflict, Kornelius noted. Trump and Merz also agreed on their positions regarding the events in the Gaza Strip and agreed that a rapid agreement on the release of hostages, an end to hostilities, and the disarmament of Hamas must be reached at the upcoming talks in Egypt, he said.
