BRUSSELS: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen insisted on Thursday (Nov 13) that using frozen Russian assets to fund a new loan was the "most effective way" to finance Ukraine, as she laid out other options after opposition from Belgium. The 27-nation bloc is scrambling for funds to help Kyiv plug looming budget black holes as Russia's war drags on towards a fourth year. Von der Leyen's executive has put forward a plan to use Russian central bank assets immobilised in Belgium to generate a €140