The court announced its decision on the admissibility of the case regarding Russia’s seizure of the territories of eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the large-scale violation of human rights by the occupiers.
Thanks to decision of the European Court of Human Rights the day is near when Russia will be held accountable for its aggression.
“The European Court of Human Rights announced its decision on the admissibility of the case regarding Russia’s seizure of the territories of eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the large-scale violation of human rights by the occupiers,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in the evening video messages.
Zelensky said that this is still an interim legal decision, but thanks to this “we have become closer to the day when Russia will be held accountable for aggression.”
ECtHR’s decision on Russia: details
Today, January 25, the European Court of Human Rights today announced a decision on the admissibility of an interstate case “Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia” about Russia’s violation of human rights in the territories of Donbas occupied by it since 2014.
As noted by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, this is the first case regarding the occupation of eastern Ukraine in 2014 and another court decision in bringing the Russian Federation to international legal responsibility. The case concerns the administrative practice of Russian violations of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions since 2014, as well as the downing of MH17.
On November 30, 2020, it became known that the European Court of Human Rights consolidated three cases against Russia regarding the occupied territories of Donbas.