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Ukraine has decided to drag Russia to the International Court of Justice and get them to pay for the massive loss of human life and economic potential that has resulted from the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing bloodbath in the eastern part of the country.
Ukraine's ministry of justice is working "on reaching a figure"that would be presented to both the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights within a month.
In the first exclusive interview given to an Indian media, Rostyslav Pavlenko - advisor to Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told TOI "Russia has to pay us for all this carnage and damage".
According to Pavlenko, the conflict is costing Ukraine $5 to $10 million a day. On an average, 10 people are dying every day in Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict. Ukraine's GDP has fallen by 6% since last year.
The advisor to Ukraine's president told TOI "we are putting together a detailed list of properties and businesses damaged and lives lost due to the invasion by Russia. Ukraine will seek compensation from Russia for the damage. Latest estimates show over 18,000 people have been seriously wounded, 7000 are confirmed dead and 2 million are completely displaced refugees".
Ukraine is also contemplating whether to file an official complaint against Vladimir Putin as a war criminal.
Pavlenko told TOI "The ongoing war has made the country increase its defence budget Ukraine has raised its defence budget to $4.5 billion. The cost of Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent violence in eastern Ukraine led by Russian mercenaries and members of the Russian army is destroying Ukraine's economy. As many as 1.2 million people have been displaced of which more than two third are women, children and the elderly. Almost one tenth of Ukraine's economic potential has been hit and one twentieth of the country's industrial potential has been destroyed. The damage to infrastructure has been immense and roads, industrial factories and mines have been destroyed. As many as 1700 Ukrainian police and military have died".
"Even when the control is regained by us in eastern Ukraine, restoring the damage will take huge amounts of money," Pavlenko said.
According to the president's office, as many as 14000 Russian supported mercenaries are now inside Ukrainian territory.
"As estimated 9000 Russians are inside Ukrainian territory at any given point of time now. Russia is known to have given 700 tanks to them with an estimated two million people living daily in war time condition. This is the first time since World War 1 a country has annexed territory of another country in Europe. We are still calculating the entire loses we have faced.Russia has to pay. We will go to the International Court of Justice. There are already many complaints in the European Court of Human Rights. Within a month we will have a figure,"
The European Court of Human Rights recently asked the Russian government to submit its observations on the admissibility of two inter-State applications lodged by the government of Ukraine. The first application concerns the events in Crimea from March 2014 and developments in the Eastern regions of Ukraine; the second application concerns the alleged abduction of three groups of children in Eastern Ukraine and their temporary transfer to Russia on three occasions between June and August 2014.
There are also more than 160 individual applications pending before the Court, lodged against Ukraine or Russia or both. More than 20 of these applications are related to the events in Crimea.
Ukraine asserts that between March and September 2014, Ukrainian military servicemen, officers of law-enforcement bodies and civilians were killed as a result of the illegal annexation of Crimea and Russian support of separatist armed groups in Eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government recently came out with a publication which outlines the mounting human and economic costs inflicted on Ukraine by Russia's military aggression in the country.
Titled "Kremlin's Black Book" the publication says the conflict in east Ukraine has destroyed 20% of Ukraine's economic potential with the government spending over $3.7 million daily to fight the militants. The book also says that around 12% of all residential structures in the Donetsk region had been destroyed as of February 3. Close to 117,000 buildings are without power and around half a million are without running water.
The estimated value of financial losses due to illegal confiscation of property of more.
Than 4,000 enterprises by the Russian criminals on the Crimean peninsula is about 1,180 billion hryvnias.
In the Luhansk region, more than 489 residential buildings were destroyed or severely damaged by late December 2015.
According to preliminary calculations, Russian aggression will cost Ukraine more than 3% gross agricultural output annually (or almost 7.4bn hryvnias).
According to preliminary estimates, the restoration of completely destroyed or severely damaged elements of the local agricultural industry will cost more than 133 million hryvnias.
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