The richest Ukrainian in 2021, Rinat Akhmetov, is finally filing a lawsuit against Russia demanding compensation for the damage caused back in 2014-2017 due to interference in the activities or expropriation of assets in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The lawsuit is reported by the press service of the SCM.

The lawsuit concerns dozens of enterprises, including the Enakievo Metallurgical Plant, Rovenkianthracite, Sverdlovanthracite, the Kirsha training base and the Donbass Arena, in the construction of which more than $400 million was invested.

" Justice must be restored, and the aggressor must suffer both financial and criminal punishment,"

Akhmetov intends to invest the reimbursed funds in the restoration and construction of new enterprises, the creation of jobs and the growth of the Ukrainian economy.

Recall that in 2018, Akhmetov’s lawyers filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court in The Hague over DTEK’s energy assets in the annexed Crimea.

In 2022, Akhmetov applied to the ECHR with a list of assets destroyed or seized after Russia's full-scale invasion.

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However, regarding assets in the occupied Donbas, Akhmetov’s position was more peaceful.

“All the company’s assets, including those located in the territory temporarily not controlled by Ukraine, are registered in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities and pay taxes to the Ukrainian budget,” said Irina Milyutina, head of the external communications department at DTEK Energy, in 2017, emphasizing that.

Militants in ORDLO have repeatedly declared their readiness to " However, DTEK did not want to comment on these statements and insisted that their assets in the occupation work exclusively in the right Ukrainian field..

Although, for example, independent experts were not so optimistic. So, for example, as Anders Aslund, an expert at the Atlantic Council (Washington, USA) analytical center, argued in 2017, Akhmetov’s losses in Donbas were already huge by that time..

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