Donetsk, Mar 10 - DAN. Tenants of a war-damaged apartment house in Gorlovka are planning to lodge compensation claims against Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights, chairwoman of the Public Commission for assessing Ukraine-caused damage Anastasia Butorkina said after the Commission’s meeting on Tuesday.
“Tenants of House No 105 located in Gorlovka’s Pobeda Avenue asked us for help,” Butorkina said. “It’s a five-storey three-section house in the middle of the densely-populated central neighbourhood. Eighty-five people had lived there before the fighting broke out; at present, their number is down to 44. They want to sue Ukraine at the European Court of Human rights and demand compensation for war-related damage.”
A direct hit at one of the sections damaged load-bearing walls, stairs landings and flights of stairs, and fully ruined the fencing wall. Several apartments were damaged as well. The overall sum of damage was estimated at 5.79 million rubles, she added.
Earlier reports said that residents of the frontline settlement of Zaitsevo in the outskirts of Gorlovka would demand two million rubles in compensation from Ukraine at the ECHR.
Similar compensation claims were earlier drawn by residents of the towns of Debaltsevo and Dokuchayevsk, the Staromikhailovka settlement and the Kominternovo village in southern DPR’s Novoazovskiy district.
The public commission for assessing the economic damage caused to the Donbass population by Ukraine was set up in Donetsk in November 2019. The decision to set up the commission was made by a group of activists from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic at a public meeting.*jk