According to its justice minister, Denys Maliuska, Ukraine wants to push through war reparations from Russia of at least 300 billion US dollars. At the UN General Assembly, Kyiv wants to achieve a resolution as the cornerstone for an international reparation mechanism, Maliuska told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Friday). “We want compensation for all the damage that Russia caused in Ukraine through its war of aggression,” he said.
The damage Ukraine suffered from the Russian invasion is now estimated to be much higher. But the sum of 300 billion US dollars corresponds to the balances of the Russian National Bank in the G7 countries, which were frozen as part of the sanctions. Maliuska demanded access to it and to the foreign assets of Russian state-owned companies and confiscated the property of Russian oligarchs.
Germany should provide information on how much Russian wealth is parked here, the minister said. At the same time, Germany should support the Ukrainian project in the UN General Assembly in New York. Maliuska spoke to Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) in Berlin on Thursday.
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