“Our infrastructure has been destroyed, buildings, schools, roads and thousands upon thousands of citizens’ homes,” Maljuska told Funke media group newspapers (Tuesday editions). “Russia must pay the Ukrainian people for the damage they have done in this war.”
His country estimates a “damage of USD 150 billion, excluding the economic damage and excluding the costs for the injured and war victims and their families,” Maljuska said. “Russia must pay reparations, as we have seen in previous wars in other regions.”
Frozen reserves for Ukraine
Malyuska noted that “about $300 billion” of Russian gold and financial reserves have been frozen in national bank accounts abroad, such as in the EU and Switzerland. According to Maljuska, these international Russian reserves should be “transferred” to Ukraine. “At the G7 summit, we are urging countries to join this compensation and recovery mechanism and find financial and legal ways to enable this international fund with Russian money.”
prosecution of war criminals
On Tuesday, G7 justice ministers will discuss Russia’s war against Ukraine. This particularly concerns the effective prosecution of war criminals. The Ukrainian Minister of Justice and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin are also invited to the top-level meeting. Ukrainian authorities have registered thousands of alleged Russian war crimes cases in Ukraine.
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(SDA)