EU to participate in creating commission for compensating Ukrainians for war damages

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

If that is the only set-up in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people, definitely we will go for this set-up,

Zelenskyy said

Kaja Kallasforeign policy chief

There is no doubt that Putin has committed the crime of aggression, which is deciding to attack another country,

the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters

The Commission is requesting the authorisation from the Council to open negotiations on the international instrument setting up the International Claims Commission for Ukraine, which will review, assess and decide eligible claims recorded in the Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and determine the compensation due in each case."

Quote from the draft proposal

The Union’s participation in the negotiations of the instrument setting up the Claims Commission needs to be established by a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations, nominating the Union’s negotiator and addressing directives to the negotiator."

Quote from the draft proposal

When Russia chose to roll its tanks over Ukraine's borders, breaking the UN Charter, it committed one of the gravest violations: the Crime of Aggression,

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said