Medvedev Proposes Seeking US, UK Compensation for Soviet-Era Damage
The Security Council deputy set out the idea in a Rodina article, urging an accounting of losses attributed to Western-backed Ukrainian nationalist actions.
Overview
- He says a reparations clause could be included in a future document formalizing the outcomes of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
- He argues Russia should receive any payments as the legal successor to the USSR that assumed obligations and repaid Soviet debts.
- He alleges Washington and London directly supported diversionary and terrorist activities by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1940s–1950s.
- He proposes calculating the economic damage the Soviet Union incurred in combating the nationalist underground in Western Ukraine.
- The comments were published on December 24 via state media coverage of his Rodina article, and no formal legal or diplomatic claim has been announced.