The Supreme Court of Great Britain issued a decision in the case of "Yanukovych's debt" for 3 billion dollars.

This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in his traditional video address on the evening of March 15.

"Today, there is an important decision in London - in the case regarding the Kremlin bribe to Yanukovych back in 2013. When Russian money and dirty schemes with the then politicians in Ukraine were actually used as part of the aggression against our state," the head of state said.

Zelenskyi emphasized that Russian aggression began already then, in 2013 – politically, economically, and later by special services and military force.

"It is in this context that the case of 3 billion Eurobonds should be considered. It should be considered completely. And it is fair," he concluded.

"Yanukovych's money": what is known

It will be recalled that the Russian dictator Putin gave his puppet Yanukovych

in the last months of his reign through the placement of Ukrainian securities.

The first tranche -

issued in Eurobonds - was placed on the Irish Stock Exchange.

The maturity date of their bonds is

.

However, the Ukrainian government

on repayment of this debt.

In February 2016, Russia filed a lawsuit against Ukraine in the High Court of London.

The Supreme Court of Great Britain ruled in favor of Ukraine in the "Yanukovych debt" case.

The trial will be held according to the full procedure and in an open session, as the Ukrainian side demanded.

"The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom today concluded that Ukraine's line of defense's coercion arguments based on the facts of threats of aggression by Russia should be fully investigated in open court in an English court. Making this landmark decision more than seven years after , as Russia filed a lawsuit against Ukraine in the English court, the Supreme Court thereby supported Ukraine's position," the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

The long-awaited decision allows Ukraine to argue that the bonds sold in 2013 on the eve of the Hydnosa Revolution were part of Moscow's

illegal

"The success of Ukraine's defense depends on whether it can establish that Russia threatened the use of force and that those threats were the reason for Ukraine's decision to enter into the agreement. This issue can only be resolved after a trial," said Judge Robert Reed, quoted by Bloomberg.

Earlier, the traitor Tsarev said that Viktor Yanukovych wanted to divide Ukraine by giving the western regions autonomy.

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