<p>From July 16, 2025: <em>Lawfare</em> Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko and <em>Lawfare</em> Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sit down with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the Register of Damage for Ukraine at the Council of Europe and a former legal advisor of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Patrick Pearsall, Partner at Gibson Dunn and directs the International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School.</p><p>Markiyan and Patrick played a key role in proposing and designing Ukraine's reparations strategy soon after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They discuss how they came up with the idea and pitched it to President Zelensky, the G-7, and the UN General Assembly; the proposed reparations mechanism; the fate of frozen Russian assets; and the relevance of the reparations to the Ukraine-Russia talks. </p><p>You may want to look at the following materials relevant to the discussion. </p><ul><li><a href="https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n22/679/12/pdf/n2267912.pdf?OpenElement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UN General Assembly Resolution on "Furtherance of remedy and reparation for aggression against Ukraine"</a></li><li><a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/84146/historic-unga-resolution-calls-for-ukraine-reparations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chiara Giorgetti, Markiyan Kliuchkovsky, Patrick Pearsall, and Jeremy K. Sharpe, “Historic UNGA Resolution Calls for Ukraine Reparations”</a></li><li><a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/understanding-the-g7-s-new-plan-for-funding-ukraine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scott R. Anderson, “Understanding the G7’s New Plan for Funding Ukraine”</a></li></ul><p>To receive ad-free podcasts, become a <em>Lawfare </em>Material Supporter at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/lawfare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/lawfare</a>. You can also support <em>Lawfare </em>by making a one-time donation at <a href="https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute</a>.</p><p>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare">http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare</a>.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
