Russian anger as UN calls for reparations over invasion of Ukraine - BBC

Russia has angrily rejected planetary calls for it to wage for warfare harm it has inflicted successful Ukraine.

It comes aft the UN General Assembly passed a solution saying Russia should look the consequences of its actions, including paying reparations.

General Assembly resolutions transportation symbolic weight, but bash not person the powerfulness to enforce compliance.

The Kremlin said it would enactment to halt the West seizing its planetary reserves to wage for reparations.

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused the West of attempting to "formalise robbery" and interruption the rules of backstage spot and planetary law.

The solution said that Russia "must carnivore the ineligible consequences of each of its internationally wrongful acts, including making reparation for the injury, including immoderate damage, caused by specified acts".

It besides recommends that subordinate states, successful collaboration with Ukraine, make an planetary registry to grounds grounds and claims against Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the resolution, saying that reparations paid by Russia are present "part of the planetary ineligible reality".

Ahead of the vote, Kyiv's UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told the assembly that Russia had targeted everything from factories to residential buildings and hospitals successful the war.

In summation to needing concern to rebuild infrastructure, helium said that betterment "will ne'er beryllium implicit without a consciousness of justness for the victims of the Russian war", adding: "It is clip to clasp Russia accountable."

Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia labelled the solution "legally null and void", and accused the West of "trying to gully retired and worsen the conflict".

The solution was supported by 94 retired of 193 subordinate states, portion 14 - including Russia, China and Iran - voted against it. The remaining countries each abstained.

By contrast, 143 subordinate states voted successful October to condemn Moscow's amerciable annexation of parts of Ukraine.

There person been erstwhile examples of countries being ordered to wage reparations aft conflicts.

The precocious terms was intended to guarantee that Germany would not beryllium susceptible of much warfare for galore years.

But it ended up having the other effect, arsenic galore historians reason the crippling reparations and labelling of Germany arsenic the "guilty" enactment successful the warfare were a cardinal operator of resentment that led to World War Two.

Germany and different axis powers were besides forced to wage reparations aft that conflict, but with a greater accent connected rebuilding damaged infrastructure successful Europe than connected punishing Germany for its actions.