PARIS, December 1. /TASS/. French President Emmanuel Macron expects to keep control over Russian frozen assets and hopes that the tradeoff on their future fate will be managed to be achieved inside the European Union.

"We will find an option enabling us technically to answer all the legitimate questions asked," he said.

The goal is to complete the activities by the next EU Council meeting in December and the European Commission will announce its decisions during the next coming days, Macron added.

The main task of Europeans is "to protect these assets against any changes" and "keep control over them," the French leader noted. The EU "should find appropriate solutions to provide Ukraine with funding for its military efforts in the long run" and determine the format of such future financing and the role of Russian assets in this process, he added.

The EU countries continue discussing ways of financing Ukraine, including the use of Russian assets frozen in the West for this purpose. The European Commission repeatedly said earlier that the expropriation of Russian assets under the guise of the "reparation loan" remains its priority option.