Ukraine’s Damage Register Now Accepts Infrastructure, Business Loss Claims

The Register of Damage for Ukraine (RD4U) opened filing for five new categories specifically designed for businesses and the Ukrainian state companies, which will allow legal entities – regardless of ownership – to build a full international evidence base for future reparations.

The register is now moving from personal loses of Ukrainians caused by Russian aggression to production capacity damages. The latest expansion addresses a different scale of wartime consequences: the destruction of infrastructure, the loss of production capacity, the disruption of logistics chains, and the functional collapse of entire economic sectors.

Based in The Hague, since December 2025 the Register serves as the first step toward a comprehensive international compensation mechanism. 

According to the information on RD4U’s website, the new categories allow for a broad range of economic and structural claims:

• Infrastructure (B1.1, B1.2, C1.1, C1.2): Claims can be submitted for the cost of destroyed or damaged critical and non-critical infrastructure, as well as the expenses for current or future repairs and restoration.
• Business Assets (C3.1): This category covers the damage, destruction, or loss of tangible assets. Crucially, it also includes claims for lost profits and the total loss of a business resulting from the war.

These categories are open to all legal entities, including private, state-owned, and municipal enterprises, as well as government bodies and local communities.

To apply, companies can fill claims digitally via the Diia web portal, Ukraine’s specialized e-government platform.

Register as Mechanism to Compensation 

The RD4U unites 44 states and the European Union. In December 2025, 35 states and the EU signed a Convention to establish the International Claims Commission under the auspices of the Council of Europe. This Commission will evaluate the claims recorded in the register and determine the exact amount of compensation.

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As of today, approximately 150,000 claims have already been recorded. Ukraine and its partners continue to work on a compensation fund, grounded in the principle that the Russian Federation bears financial responsibility for the damages caused.

The register now accepts claims across three primary areas: human rights and personal safety, covering forced displacement (A1.1–A1.2), the death or disappearance of family members (A2.1–A2.2), and severe violations such as torture, sexual violence, or forced labor (A2.3–A2.9).

Individual property and business claims include the damage or destruction of residential and non-residential real estate (A3.1–A3.2), loss of housing (A3.3), and loss of private entrepreneurship or access to property in occupied territories (A3.5–A3.6). Lastly, infrastructure and corporate assets include the newly opened categories for critical and non-critical infrastructure (B1.1–C1.2) and general asset loss (C3.1).