Former prisoner of war, participant in hostilities in eastern Ukraine Volodymyr Fomitsky won a lawsuit against the Russian Federation. His claim was satisfied by the Dolgintsevsky District Court of Krivoy Rog, Radio Liberty reports..

The court decided to recover from Russia and the International Reserve Bank (formerly Sberbank) one million hryvnias in compensation for moral damages in favor of Vladimir Fomitsky. The relevant court decision entered into force, the plaintiff received the relevant document.

Vladimir Fomitsky, together with lawyer Dmitry Chernesh, sued the Russian Federation represented by its embassy in Ukraine, as well as a Russian bank. The litigation lasted almost two years..

" The executive bodies must ensure the implementation of this decision, wherever this money is, even around the world. mechanisms are enough. Now any citizen of Ukraine who has suffered from Russian aggression can follow the same path,"

Fomitsky is a volunteer of the Kryvbas Battalion. In 2014, he was captured by Russian security forces while leaving the Ilovaisky Cauldron.. Ukrainian soldier held hostage for 10 days. After his release, he was declared unfit for military service..

It is noted that Fomitsky also sent a lawsuit from the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights.

Recall that the battles for Illovaisk unfolded in August 2014.. At the end of the month, Putin called on the “militia forces” to open a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian soldiers who were surrounded. The Ukrainian military began to move out of the city in organized columns along the routes previously agreed with the Russian side.. At first, the Ukrainian columns moved freely past the Russian fortified positions, but after a while, the Russian troops opened fire, shooting the columns on the march.

According to the National Military History Museum, 368 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the battles on August 7-31, 2014, 18 are still missing..