COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE TO VICTIMS OF THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION
Holding the Russian Federation and its accomplices financially liable; building claims for individuals, companies and local communities.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW · PhD IN LAW
NATALIIA TSELOVALNICHENKO
Legal aid organiser · Author of the «Legal Forces of Ukraine»© project
Justice is a system, not a coincidence.
Systems are built. Yours — together with you.
DEFENCE OF SERVICEMEMBERS
Legal defence of military personnel and military pensioners: medical boards, combat-veteran status, return from unauthorised absence, pay and allowances, pension disputes, drafting reports, advisory support and challenging unlawful orders of command.
AI SYSTEMS
A specialised AI system for local self-government bodies (the «Legal Forces of Ukraine»© project). AI support for legal work and for enterprise management processes.
CLASSIC PRACTICE
Defence in criminal proceedings. Civil cases: inheritance, contractual and tort obligations. Protection of rights in relations with public authorities. Experience of working with the media and the public.
WHY CLIENTS COME TO US
SYSTEM
We see more than the subject of the claim.
We take the conflict apart as a whole: facts, law, evidence, the parties' interests, the opponent's resources, procedural risks, the public context and whether a future judgment can actually be enforced.
If the problem is systemic, we look not for yet another identical lawsuit but for a systemic mechanism of protection.
→ Strategic cases and resultsSTRONG OPPONENT
Status does not create a presumption of being right.
A state body, a large company, an official or an international institution may have far more resources than the client.
That changes the strategy — but not a person's right to a defence.
We know how to work where the conflict is already complex, toxic and unequal, and a standard procedural solution is not enough.
→ Publications and strategic casesREAL RESULT
A court judgment is not the finish line.
Before filing a claim we already ask: what happens after we win?
Interim measures, the debtor's assets, enforcement, foreign jurisdictions, negotiations, advocacy, publicity — all of this can be part of one strategy.
Because a right is restored not when a well-written judgment appears, but when a person gets a real result.
→ Legal Forces of Ukraine · from a right of claim to enforcementTEAM
Complex cases should not rest on one head.
Cases are handled by the attorney, an assistant, lawyers, subject-matter experts and partners. When needed we bring in psychologists, economists, valuers, auditors, international enforcement specialists and others.
AI partners of the team work alongside the people: they research large bodies of information, look for connections and contradictions, test hypotheses and help see the problem from different disciplinary angles.
For each case we assemble not a set of job titles but the intellectual capacity it needs.
→ How our team worksDON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT. CHECK.
Every statement here has an independent source. Open it and check for yourself.
20+ years
in law
Practice, scholarship, human rights work and strategic cases.
Thousands of applications
to the ECtHR
Since 2014 — applications from victims of Russian aggression in Donbas and Crimea; before that — on non-enforcement of domestic court judgments.
Harvard ILJ
a study of our case
A professional conflict that raised the question of the ECtHR's own procedural safeguards.
2022
The ECtHR changed its Rules
Since then, an advocate can be excluded only by a reasoned decision of the President of the Court, after the advocate, the Government and the bar association have been heard, with a right to restoration.
This topic is the subject of a separate systematic study we are preparing.
HOW OUR TEAM WORKS
01 · REQUEST
You write to any convenient messenger or call us. Briefly describe the situation.
02 · ASSESSMENT
We assess the prospects of the case, state the timeline and the order of work.
03 · REPRESENTATION
We prepare the documents, represent your interests and keep you informed at every step.
PUBLIC WORK
The «Legal Forces of Ukraine» project How the legal support system is built, who takes part and how to join. Personal page Full biography, academic work and the path the project grew from. Support for local communities The programme within which the AI system for local self-government was created. Publications about our work Materials on the activity of the «Legal Forces of Ukraine» project.