# Russian frozen assets have Australia's Senate fired up

https://mins.news/en/item/28526

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-08-21 14:48 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/russian-frozen-assets-have-australias-senate-fired-up/

> Australia’s Senate Foreign Affairs Committee has proposed 11 measures to strengthen sanctions on Russia, including legislation to seize sanctioned Russian assets and transfer them to Ukraine. The report cites loopholes and weak enforcement, while Labor senators call the asset estimates speculative and warn of major legal and constitutional barriers.