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For Europe, the solution to plugging Kyiv's budget hole of $159bn for the next two years lies in frozen cash held by Euroclear, and EU leaders hope to sign that off at their Brussels summit next week. The EU and Ukraine argue that money should be used to rebuild what Russia has destroyed: Brussels calls it a "reparations loan" and has come up with a plan to prop up Ukraine's economy to the tune of $105bn. "It's only fair that Russia's frozen assets should be used to rebuild what Russia has destroyed " and that money then becomes ours," says Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.