FT, Citing Four Unnamed People: Witkoff and Kushner Proposed in Miami That Europe Unfreeze Some Russian Sovereign Assets Into a Washington-Overseen Vehicle; Europeans Said No

• Report, Oct 15: the Financial Times, “citing four people familiar with the matter”, says Witkoff and Kushner proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets.
• Venue and date, as relayed: a Miami meeting “on 10 October” with officials from Ukraine, France, Germany, the UK, the EU and NATO. The Kyiv Post version gives no exact date. The 10 Oct date is the meeting date per the relay; Oct 15 is the FT publication date.
• What was floated: “several possible methods”, including moving the assets into “a new special-purpose financial vehicle overseen by Washington”. The relay does not name the entity or say how funds would be spent.
• US side: an unnamed US official said the assets were discussed as part of a comprehensive peace deal and that release and spending mechanisms “were still under discussion”. This is a proposal in discussion, not an action or decision.
• European response, per one source: Europeans “were told that this was just simply not going to happen”; the relay says they oppose giving up control or returning any part to Moscow. Who spoke for the Europeans is not named.
• Scale, per Kyiv Post (not span-checked): about EUR 260 billion frozen since 2022, over EUR 210 billion in the EU, much of it at Euroclear.

Not established: the FT original was paywalled and not read; every detail is second-hand through Ukrainska Pravda and Kyiv Post. No US or European official is on the record. Context only: this is separate from the GL 135 diesel entries, see Trump announces Russian diesel deal / OFAC GL 135. Sibling report same day: shadow-fleet easing.