The claims envisage that part of the payments would be made through the European Peace Facility (EPF), Ukrainska Pravda reports. However, the fund is currently blocked: Hungary is withholding payments amounting to €6.6 billion.
The total of the claims rose, the report says, because member states have declared additional deliveries from stocks and arsenals. Even if the €6.6 billion were released, the EPF would still not cover the full €43 billion, because a reimbursement rate is applied to the amounts to be repaid.
Ukrainska Pravda also reports that the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the European Union. The case concerns the use of proceeds from frozen Russian assets to top up the fund.
Source: www.pravda.com.ua
