Highlights: Since Tuesday April 2, Ukrainians can declare the damage caused by Russian aggression to their homes, monuments or infrastructure in the country. The register of damages, established in the Netherlands, can now receive the first complaints. Ukrainians are urged to report damage to their properties. In the future, they will also be able to report losses of loved ones, injuries, sexual violence, torture, forced deportations. The Ukrainian state and businesses can also record losses suffered since the Russian army began its invasion on February 24, 2022. An international reparation mechanism will still need to be established so that funds can be allocated to victims.

Since Tuesday April 2, Ukrainians can declare the damage caused by Russian aggression to their homes, monuments or infrastructure in the country. The register of damages, established in the Netherlands…

War in Ukraine: creation of a register of war damages caused by Russia

Since Tuesday April 2, Ukrainians can declare the damage caused by Russian aggression to their homes, monuments or infrastructure in the country. The damage register, established in the Netherlands eleven months ago under the authority of the Council of Europe, can now receive the first complaints.

Participants of the international peace conference “Restoring Justice for Ukraine” pose for a family photo, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 2, 2024. © Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in The Hague,

Stéphanie Maupas

This is a first step towards repairs. Ukrainians

are

urged to report damage to their properties. In the future, they will also be able to report losses of loved ones, injuries, sexual violence, torture, forced deportations and all damages resulting from

Russian

aggression . The Ukrainian state and businesses can also record losses suffered since the Russian army began its invasion on February 24, 2022.

However, an international reparation mechanism will still need to be established so that funds can be allocated to victims. Ukraine hopes that it will be supplemented by property seized since the start of the war following

sanctions imposed

against the Russian state and against targeted individuals, mainly oligarchs.

Ukraine still calls for creation of special court

Frozen Russian assets will remain immobilized until Russia stops its aggression against Ukraine and pays for the damage caused, conference participants said. But the interest on fixed assets could already make it possible to free up several billion euros per year, which would then be dedicated to repairs.

At the end of the conference Tuesday evening, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba recalled that his country is still demanding

the creation of a special court

to judge the perpetrators of Russian aggression.

In my speech at the opening of the "Restoring Justice for Ukraine" conference of 57 countries in The Hague, I emphasized that Ukrainians need justice right now. Not in a distant future.

Ukrainians don't want to hear that justice will be served. They want to see it served… pic.twitter.com/E13vVAqDaH

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) April 2, 2024

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