The Register of Damage for Ukraine Opens Submissions for Legal Entities and the State of Ukraine

On 29 April 2026, the Register of Damage for Ukraine (RD4U) officially launched the first claim categories available to legal entities and the State of Ukraine.

1. Background

RD4U is an international organisation established under the auspices of the Council of Europe and based in The Hague. The Register was created to record evidence and claims regarding damage caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Until now, the open RD4U categories covered mainly individuals: forced displacement, personal injury, the death of family members, and damage to or destruction of residential property.

The newly opened categories B1.1, B1.2, C1.1, C1.2 and C3.1 allow businesses, state authorities and local self-government bodies to record damage to infrastructure and loss of assets for future compensation. For the first time, RD4U will be able to record systemic economic damage: destruction of infrastructure, loss of production capacity and assets, disruption of logistics chains, and harm caused to entire sectors of the economy.

2. New Claim Categories

Categories B1.1 and B1.2 cover damage to or destruction of critical infrastructure (B1.1) and non-critical infrastructure (B1.2).

Compensation may be claimed for the value of the damaged or destroyed property and the costs of its repair or restoration, including future costs. Claims may be submitted by: the State of Ukraine, state authorities, state institutions, local self-government bodies, territorial communities, municipalities, etc.

Categories C1.1 and C1.2 cover damage to or destruction of critical infrastructure (C1.1) and non-critical infrastructure (C1.2).

Compensation may be claimed for the value of the damaged or destroyed property, as well as the costs of its repair or restoration, including future costs. Claims may be submitted by any legal entity regardless of its organisational and legal form or form of ownership.

Category C3.1 covers damage, destruction or loss of assets and the related losses and costs — the broadest category for legal entities, intended to record wider economic harm beyond physical damage to infrastructure.

Compensation may be claimed for damage, destruction or loss of assets, loss of profit from such assets, total loss of business, and other direct costs related to such losses. A claim may be submitted by any legal entity regardless of its organisational and legal form or form of ownership.

Claims regarding the property of individuals are submitted under category A (opened separately).

3. How to Submit a Claim

Claims are submitted electronically through the Diia web portal (diia.gov.ua). For legal entities, the process is as follows:

A claim on behalf of a legal entity is submitted by its head (for example, the director). The head may appoint a representative by granting them digital authority via Diia, after which the representative will be able to submit claims on behalf of the legal entity. Admissible claims are entered into RD4U and forwarded to the future Compensation Commission. The Compensation Commission will determine the amount of compensation based on the data recorded in RD4U.