Poland believes that Russia should compensate Ukraine for all the damage caused by the war

Polish President Andrzej Duda, in Wielun, the city that was the first to be bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, on the day of the start of the Second World War, said that it was important for the aggressor to compensate for the damage caused by the war, mentioning Ukraine in this context. This is reported by Ukrinform.

Duda recalled that during the Second World War Poland suffered huge material and human losses, which were not compensated. He noted that according to Polish experts' calculations, the material losses of the country as a result of German aggression amounted to 1.5 trillion dollars. At the same time, more than 70 per cent of this amount is compensation for human casualties. The country lost 5 million people during the war.

Duda stressed that Germany had repeatedly apologised for the offences inflicted on Poland, but there had been no proper material compensation.

We would not want Ukraine to have to rebuild at its own expense, as Poland has done for 40 years. Ukraine will need support, but first of all, it will demand compensation and reparation for the damage caused, which is the absolute responsibility of the aggressor, i.e. Russia," Duda stressed.

We shall remind you that on 17 May, at the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, more than 40 countries and the EU signed an agreement on the creation of the Register of Damage Caused to Ukraine by Russian aggression.

It was created as a platform for intergovernmental co-operation operating within the institutional framework of the Council of Europe. The Register is a legal entity under the national laws of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Ukraine and is physically located in the Netherlands.

Justice Minister Denys Malyuska said that Ukraine expects to receive at least 300bn dollars in war reparations from Russia.