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Lawfare Daily: Reparations for Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi and Patrick Pearsall

Mykhailo Soldatenko, Scott R. Anderson, Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Patrick Pearsall, Jen Patja
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 7:00 AM
Discussing Ukraine's reparations strategy. 
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Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko and Lawfare 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.

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. 

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Mykhailo Soldatenko

Mykhailo Soldatenko

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Mykhailo Soldatenko is an attorney in Ukraine and New York and an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. He was previously a senior associate at a leading Ukrainian law firm, practicing international dispute resolution. He is also currently a Legal Fellow at Lawfare.
Scott R. Anderson

Scott R. Anderson

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Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi

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Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi is the Executive Director of the Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Patrick Pearsall

Patrick Pearsall

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Patrick W. Pearsall is an international arbitration and disputes partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson Dunn and is Global Co-Chair of the Geopolitical Strategy and International Law practice. He directs the International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
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