Yatseniuk: Ukraine wants to file claims against the Russian Federation for damages
The Ukrainian government wishes to bring fresh claims against the Russian Federation for reimbursement of losses incurred by the Ukrainian government, said the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The head of government reminded that, despite the difficult situation in the Parliament adopted the law on sanctions, which will introduce restrictive measures against the Russian Federation.
" currently need the signing of this law and the decisions on the introduction of sanctions against Russia. Also filing new claims against Russia as the aggressor state for compensation for all damages that Russia caused the Ukrainian state, " - said Yatsenyuk at the meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday.
Now against Russia lodged claims in the European court of human rights (ECtHR) with the requirement to recover damages for the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine estimates the amount of damage more than 1 trillion UAH (about 100 billion dollars at the exchange rate at the time). First Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Kyiv wants to sue Russia for each instance of loss of property in the Crimea.
however, the Russian authorities have said that the referendum and the accession of the Peninsula passed legally. For example, the head of centuries Putin said that the referendum meets the norms of international law and the UN Charter. And the Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov called the lawsuit Kiev against the capital of Russia in connection with the annexation of Crimea to Russia hopeless.
Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of the population of Donbass. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded. In the Russian capital a special operation, which has already resulted in numerous casualties on both sides, And among them civilians, called punitive and evangelizing the world community to take all possible measures to stop the fire.
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