On December 16, 2025, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and representatives from 34 countries jointly signed a convention in The Hague, Netherlands, officially approving the establishment of the “International Commission for Compensation for Ukraine,” aimed at providing solutions for compensation for damages caused by the Russian invasion.
This committee is an extension of the “Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” established by the Council of Europe in 2023. It will be responsible for reviewing the more than 85,000 claims already included in the register, covering 13 categories of losses including housing damage, personal injury, and forced displacement, and will ultimately determine the compensation amounts. The register has documented evidence of various losses suffered by Ukraine in its territory and in the lives of its citizens since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
The convention will officially enter into force after at least 25 signatory states have ratified it, and the first compensation decisions are expected to be made in the second half of 2027. The compensation funds are intended to be primarily sourced from frozen Russian assets, and the EU has proposed using these assets as collateral to provide Ukraine with a €140 billion “compensation loan.”
Russia had previously criticized such mechanisms as “legal aggression” and emphasized that it would not pay any compensation.
