The European Court of Justice announced a judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found the applications partially acceptable.

In Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday, January 25, announced its decision on the admissibility for consideration of the interstate case Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia. Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Irina Mudra announced this on Facebook.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found the applications partially acceptable. This decision is final. After that, the Grand Chamber will decide on the merits of the case.

“This is the first case on the seizure of eastern Ukraine in 2014 and another court decision on bringing Russia to international legal responsibility,” said the deputy minister.

He also clarified that the case concerns Russia’s administrative practice of human rights violations in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions since 2014, abductions and attempts to illegally export orphans from Donetsk and Lugansk regions on the territory of the Russian Federation. In addition, in this case, Ukraine and the Kingdom of the Netherlands filed, among other things, complaints about the downing of Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 in 2014 in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region. In 2020, three interstate cases were consolidated into a Ukraine and Netherlands v. Russia.

This decision of the ECtHR will help:

• holding Russia accountable for actions that have led to widespread human rights violations in eastern Ukraine and stopping these violations wherever possible;

• support of individual claims of citizens and companies against the Russian Federation both at the ECtHR and in investment arbitrations and will be the basis on which individual cases, arbitration cases will be advanced, so that applicants can collect compensation from Russia for violation of rights;

• be a weapon for further negotiations with Russia with our international partners.

“Such decisions can be used for diplomatic pressure on Russia, the introduction of additional sanctions of various degrees, as well as the verification of the responsibility of the Russian Federation regarding human rights violations in the temporarily occupied territories. territory,” Mudra wrote.

He also added that as of January 23, 2022, five interstate cases of Ukraine against Russia are pending at the ECtHR:

• Ukraine v. Russia (in Crimea) on human rights violations in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea;

• Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia – a case of human rights violations in the occupied territories of Donbass, which includes a complaint about the downing of Malaysian aircraft flight MH-17;

• Ukraine v. Russia regarding the killings of enemies of the Russian Federation;

• Ukraine v. Russia – the case of the capture of Ukrainian sailors and ships in the Kerch Strait in 2018;

• Ukraine v. Russia is a case about the crimes of the Russian military during the mass invasion of the territory of Ukraine.

Recall that in January last year, the hearings of the European Court of Human Rights began on three interstate statements about the events in Donbas. The case is the largest ever heard by the ECtHR. Although the hearings in the case of the downing of the MH17 flight in the summer of 2014 in the Donbas were supposed to take place on November 24, 2021. But the court put them aside.

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