IN BRIEF: What is known about situation around frozen Russian assets

BRUSSELS, December 18. /TASS/. EU leaders are unlikely to agree on using frozen Russian assets due to differences between "irreconcilable camps" within the association, Politico reported, citing sources.

TASS has compiled the main information about the situation.

- EU diplomats worked for 11 hours to reach a compromise to retain the decision on a so-called reparation loan to Kiev, which is to be adopted at the summit on December 18-19, Politico said.

- Four EU officials told the newspaper that a key point in the discussion was the idea of excluding Hungary and Slovakia from the general debt repayment scheme, as both countries oppose further aid to Ukraine.

- As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said upon his arrival in Brussels on Wednesday evening, the issue of expropriating Russian assets has been removed from the EU summit agenda.