Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would be a game changer, says 'Putin's enemy No 1'

BRITAIN and countries worldwide were today urged to use hundreds of billions of pounds of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's war against Vladimir Putin, as a London businessman known as the Kremlin leader's "number one enemy" said it would be a "total game changer" in the conflict.

- Matin Bentham

Bill Browder, who was the largest international investor in Russia until being declared a threat to its national security for exposing corruption, said that handing frozen Russian assets - estimated to total at least £275 billion worldwide including £23 billion in Britain to Ukraine would tip the balance and allow them to "fight off the Russians" and "arm themselves properly".