The EU executive is doubling down on using frozen Russian assets to finance a €140-billion reparations loan to Ukraine after most of the bloc’s finance ministers agreed to back the initiative — rather than looking to their own coffers . Belgium is still the key holdout, fearing that using the frozen assets — which remain under the guardianship of Brussels-based financial depository Euroclear — will expose it to Russian retaliation at home and abroad. With Kyiv’s war chest running low on