Ukraine has filed two lawsuits with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Crimea's annexation and Russia's liability to Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
“We are also preparing lawsuits, including some for the government
agencies and departments of the Russian Federation, over the illegal
takeover and robbing of Ukraine. One must be held accountable for that,”
the prime minister was quoted on the government’s website as saying on
Tuesday.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an inquiry
into Ukrainian property in Crimea, Yatseniuk also recalled. “As part of
the criminal inquiry the Ukrainian government is filing a lawsuit to the
tune of over 1 trillion hryvnias,” the prime minister said.
Ukraine is using whatever legal methods possible to get Russia on the dock, he said.
“We are aware that such legal proceedings do not end in one month.
But such legal proceedings will have results,” Yatseniuk said.
Earlier Yatseniuk told Verkhovna Rada that Russia stole 2.2 billion cubic meters of Ukrainian natural gas stored in Crimea.
