MEPs call to seize Russia’s hundreds of billions in frozen assets
Lawmakers want to see more support for Ukraine as US and UK counterparts advance.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. The country's capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city and cultural capital. Other major cities in the country include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don.
Lawmakers want to see more support for Ukraine as US and UK counterparts advance.
Fighting is currently raging near Avdiivka in the Donetsk region as Moscow tries to take advantage before Western aid arrives.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has suggested central Asian countries are being used by Russia to side-step western..