Ukrainians may begin filing claims for damages caused to them during the Russian military invasion in a newly created registry based in The Hague, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Tuesday.
The registry will initially focus on property damagebut it should be expanded to also include other types of property and other damages, Kuleba said at a conference organized by the Dutch government to discuss legal liability.
Ukraine wants to use frozen Russian assets to pay war damage and reparations to victims. “This is the first significant step that is being taken,” Kuleba said, adding that claims could be filed by anyone starting Tuesday.
“Not less important create a full-fledged international compensation mechanism and confiscate frozen Russian assets.”– he said at the conference.
Both citizens of Ukraine and foreigners who suffered damage on the territory of Ukraine as a result of the large-scale Russian invasion in February 2022 can file claims with the register. You can make your request through a special application which is also used to complete legal transactions and save official documents digitally.
A few hours after the registry opened they were more than 100 complaints filed– said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Hanke Bruins Slot following the conference. Ukrainian officials said they hope More than eight million individual claims have been filed.
Dmitry Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and his colleague Hanke Bruins Slot. | Photo: Reuters.
The World Bank estimated in February that Kyiv will need $486 billion to restore the country, devastated by the Russian invasion. Ukraine named this amount can be duplicated If we take into account compensation for war victims.
The Ukrainian Damage Register was created within the framework of the Council of Europe, a rights monitoring body, and has 44 members, including majority of EU membersUK, Japan and USA.
Its creation was recommended in last year’s UN General Assembly resolution calling for Russia held accountable for the invasion, and Moscow held responsible for reparations in Ukraine.
Moscow says it will do everything possible to prevent The West is “plundering” state assets to pay reparations to UkraineAnd the Russian ambassador to the UN said that the provisions of the UN resolution are “legally invalid.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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