I'm John Batchel, with Ennatole-Leven at the Quincy Institute for State Stacraft, within hours of what seems a striking concession by both presidents,

Vladimir Putin, to acknowledge a ceasefire in certain cities, including Keith,

from the barrage that has damaged the infrastructure, and Mr. Trump announcing it at the

White House in a positive mood.

And also putting up Vladimir Putin's picture at the White House, we're told.

These are incidents.

But they point to agreements that are coming fast right now.

However, we need to follow the money because I got lost in that.

And at all, there are billions of dollars that were confiscated or detained or in some way not returned to Russia by our European allies.

There are assets all over the world.

What has been agreed to?

Where are the red lines of that money?

What's it for?

Well, the Europeans backed off from actually seizing that and giving it to Ukraine because

the Belgians and others would not agree because they were afraid that they would end up

having to foot the bill.

And of course, this is completely illegal under the rules of international finance

and the clearinghouse involved.

So the money remains suspended, not confiscated.

Russia has proposed a range of actually pretty positive ideas, you know, as opposed to simply

getting the money back.

We're talking about around $300 billion here.

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