The amount of damage from the loss of Ukraine's Crimea, which Kiev wants to demand from the Russian Federation at the ECHR is over 1 trillion hryvnias, and not the dollars, explained Last news in the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

now against Russia lodged claims in the court of claim to recover damages for the annexation of Crimea to Russia. First of Yatsenyuk said that Kyiv wants to sue Russia in every case of loss of property in Crimea. On Thursday Yatsenyuk said that the sum of the losses specified in the first lawsuit filed by Kyiv in the ECHR, is more than 1 trillion, without explaining what kind of currency is being referred to.

"The Prime Minister said about the amount in UAH ", - said the press service.

at the end of September, the people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Georgy Logvynsky said that the harm of Ukraine from joining the Crimea to Russia, as if, is 1, 2 billion hryvnia (about $ 57 billion).

Crimea and Sevastopol, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup in Ukraine was held on 16 March 2014 a referendum in which an overwhelming number of voters (96, 77%) with a turnout of 83, 1% were in favour of joining Russia.

however, the Russian authorities said that the referendum and annexation of Crimea were legitimate. For example, leader Vladimir Putin said that the referendum meets the norms of international law and the UN Charter. Russia's permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov called the lawsuit Kiev against the Russian capital in connection with the annexation of Crimea to Russia hopeless.

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