International courts not in a position to award compensation and UN would have no enforcement power, says UK thinktank
Western and Ukrainian rhetoric claiming Russia will be required to pay reparations for the damage caused by its invasion of Ukraine is not backed by a coherent roadmap based on international law to achieve justice for Ukraine’s victims, a new report prepared by the British thinktank Ceasefire has warned.
The report, one of the first detailed studies on how reparations for Ukraine might work, says little progress has been made in practice in setting up a global mechanism to require Russia to pay compensation, and warns it is imperative that the delay ends.
