Paris orders Russia to pay billion dollars to Ukraine

July 2 2025 103 479 35

Russia must pay a billion dollars to a Ukrainian bank for lost investments in Crimea, the French newspaper Le Monde reports. The publication notes that a Paris court rejected Moscow's appeal and put an end to a long-running legal battle between Russia and Ukraine's Oschadbank.

The dispute stems from a procedure initiated in 2018 by Oschadbank in an international arbitration court in France, where the bank complained about the loss of investments in Crimea after the territory was annexed by Russia in March 2014.

- recalls the publication.

The author of the article explains that the Arbitration Court satisfied his demands, obliging Russia to pay more than a billion dollars. Moscow appealed this decision in the Paris Court of Appeal, but the appeal was rejected after many years of litigation.

Let us recall that Switzerland earlier obliged Gazprom to pay Ukraine over a billion dollars. The essence of this dispute between the Russian and Ukrainian operators was that Naftogaz stopped the transit of Russian fuel through the Sokhranovka point, which came under the control of the Russian Federation. In Kyiv, this fact was considered force majeure. In response, the Russian side refused to pay for the non-existent gas pumping.

European judges sided with Ukraine in this matter, making an openly politicized decision. At the same time, the Russian company has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to recognize such decisions and pay the claims of the Ukrainian side.

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Kiril

+11

2 July 2025 20: 58

We will pay with missiles
1. etoyavsemprivet
  
  -2
  
  3 July 2025 07: 38
  
  And take Poland as a change 🫠.
  1. skeptic
    
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    4 July 2025 22: 02
    
    Quote from etoyavsemprivet
    And take Poland as a change 🫠.
    
    Do we need this? Iskanders will do.
Andrew13

+16

2 July 2025 21: 26

Yes, these lawsuits will never end, why appeal them at all? And not a single article has written how many millions of euros are paid each time for these appeals. They will continue to milk Russia!
1. Roman070280
  
  +8
  
  2 July 2025 21: 35
  
  Why are they being appealed at all?
  
  They are probably appealing (trying) because they understand that such issues will remain stumbling blocks even after half a century.
  And there everything will depend on the strength of the states... some kind of mess - a crisis a la 90 - with an outstretched hand to the IMF - an agreement on recognizing all debts...
  Now their job is only to record the amounts.
  And what will happen in 10-20 years - no one knows.
2. skeptic
  
  -1
  
  4 July 2025 22: 04
  
  Quote: Andrew13
  Yes, these lawsuits will never end, why appeal them at all? And not a single article has written how many millions of euros are paid each time for these appeals. They will continue to milk Russia!
  
  It seems that everything is simpler - between parties,
Roman070280

+3

2 July 2025 21: 27

The grandfathers will be buried, and the people of Russia will pay for their actions for another 30 years.
Or does someone think that it will all resolve itself?
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2. Vox Populi
  
  -1
  
  3 July 2025 16: 44
  
  Unfortunately, you are very right...
Sarcastic realist

+4

2 July 2025 21: 40

We'll pay, that's what we are.
1. Gorum Murog
  
  +4
  
  2 July 2025 23: 07
  
  Quote: Sarcastic realist
  We'll pay, that's what we are.
  
  If only we'll pay you on the forehead
  1. Sarcastic realist
    
    +7
    
    3 July 2025 07: 06
    
    If they hadn't agreed to pay, they wouldn't have participated in this circus in the first place. After all, the money doesn't belong to the oligarchs personally, but to the people, it's budget money, so why not pay? But partners will be satisfied.
Alexpan

+3

2 July 2025 21: 53

To hell with them... We can collect a billion euros from "Ukraine" for every Russian person from the DPR and LPR, Kursk region and Crimea killed by the Kyiv junta since 2014. We have the documentation, we can start.
1. Vox Populi
  
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  3 July 2025 16: 46
  
  Decisive, but not entirely clear: won’t “they” file a lawsuit against us?
borisvt

+1

2 July 2025 22: 31

..Moscow appealed this decision in the Paris Court of Appeal, but the appeal was rejected after many years of litigation.

To court, to ours, to Kamyzyak? - Good luck!
Said long ago, in KVN, by the Kamyzyak team - relevant forever
rotkiv04

+9

2 July 2025 23: 55

That's why the outskirts should be liquidated, but in general it's absolutely fantastic - to file an appeal against a warring party, this is some kind of complete surrealism, but we shouldn't sue them, we should destroy them, raze this cesspool to the ground
Foe Pshekov

+2

3 July 2025 00: 04

It is probably necessary to officially issue a decree that the city whose court will make decisions against Russia and its citizens will be destroyed by nuclear strikes first of all in the event of a war (big or small, it doesn't matter). Let them think about where to live
Gorum Murog

+3

3 July 2025 00: 19

France obliged...)) Macaron should calm down, otherwise he'll get a punch in the face from his granny again
Anatoly Solovyanov

+2

3 July 2025 00: 26

And from a dead donkey the ears...?
yo yo

+3

3 July 2025 03: 48

Such impudence could make your blue-yellow face crack!!
shpakov.alex

+3

3 July 2025 06: 13

No plaintiff (Ukraine) and no problems.
Sculptor66

+3

3 July 2025 06: 40

Therefore, Ukraine must be forced to sign a peace with reparations to us.
prior

+3

3 July 2025 07: 33

Paris orders Russia to pay billion dollars to Ukraine

It is strange that London has not yet obliged Russia to pay a trillion dollars in reparations to Ukraine and compensation to the West for the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
They can do anything. They will award anything.
It is puzzling, with whom is Putin going to negotiate?!
Soon there won't be even a single stump left of his "bear taiga", let alone a skin.
1. rotkiv04
  
  +3
  
  3 July 2025 07: 58
  
  And he has taiga, he has bear disease
lord-palladore-11045

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3 July 2025 07: 35

The author of the article explains that the Arbitration Court satisfied his demands, obliging Russia to pay more than a billion dollars. Moscow appealed this decision in the Paris Court of Appeal, but the appeal was rejected after many years of litigation.

- And who is Paris? - And by what right does it oblige Russia to do anything? - Maybe we should oblige Paris to do something, so that it doesn’t go too far?
1. prior
  
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  3 July 2025 08: 08
  
  By the same right by which Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves were frozen, and in fact stolen.
  There is no law except the law of the strong.
  Only the fear of being destroyed makes people invent some kind of rights.
  And the Basmanny Court should file a trillion-dollar lawsuit against Paris for Napoleon's desecration of the Russian national treasure - the Moscow Kremlin. Otherwise - a nuclear "Nut" on the Eiffel Tower. And let them scratch themselves.... Why can't we have such a right?!
old64

+3

3 July 2025 08: 04

Only the disappearance of the state of Ukraine from world maps will save us from a series of these lawsuits.
Sergey Latyshev

+1

3 July 2025 10: 02

A Paris court has rejected Moscow's appeal and put an end to a long-running legal battle between Russia and Ukraine's Oschadbank.

This means that Moscow recognizes Paris' jurisdiction over the deal.

As an example: there were 2 news items that in England, after the start of the SVO, Russian monopolists (i.e., oligarchs, essentially) like Norilsk Nickel and the like were suing each other. There was plenty of this before the SVO.
There is no war.
The oligarchs themselves may not feel good in London. But lawyers, children, mistresses, etc. - quite well.
goncharov.62

+2

3 July 2025 10: 22

Are we subject to the jurisdiction of this asshole Europe? What kind of "lawyers" drew up the agreements? The cancer hasn't been born yet and the mountain hasn't grown yet... D.B.!
1. Roman070280
  
  +1
  
  3 July 2025 17: 23
  
  Are we really subject to the jurisdiction of this asshole Europe?
  
  Those who filed the appeal know better.
Vox Populi

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3 July 2025 16: 49

Quote: Foe Pshekov
It is probably necessary to officially issue a decree that the city whose court will make decisions against Russia and its citizens will be destroyed by nuclear strikes first of all in the event of a war (big or small, it doesn't matter). Let them think about where to live

An excellent example of the quintessence of weakness and absentee courage in the comments of UPA-patriots...
Petr_Yakovlev

0

3 July 2025 19: 04

Arbitration works on the condition that both parties accept it.
WHY did our people go to trial? ? You can't take part in such trials! I see a strong desire of lawyers and legal experts to take part in order to get a fee. You can't be led by the wishes of lawyers.
They are all utterly corrupt and have THREE variable opinions at once, depending on which way the wind is blowing. You have to understand that in the West ALL courts and arbitrations are AGAINST Russia..
There is no sign of any fair trial there...
guest

+1

3 July 2025 21: 55

Paris orders Russia to pay billion dollars to Ukraine

They would have obliged the USSR to pay Germany a billion dollars back in 1942.
Misha Prokhorenko

+1

4 July 2025 12: 46

Will the payment be in nuts???? And we can also make payments to Macron in nuts for the future.
yo yo

0

4 July 2025 14: 27

Why only a billion dollars?
Or not two or three??
GR777

-1

4 July 2025 19: 21

We have to pay. And the frog-keepers will give us frog legs for this. Not expensive. They don't give things for free.