KYIV, July 10 – Participants in the first preparatory meeting for the creation of a Commission for the consideration of applications for compensation for damage caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine agreed on the basic principles of the future commission and set a goal to launch it by the end of next 2025, Deputy Head of the President's Office of Ukraine Iryna Mudra said.

"Today in The Hague, the team of the President's Office of Ukraine and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine completed the first preparatory meeting on the international instrument for creating a Commission for the consideration of applications for Ukraine, which we organized jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Register of Losses for Ukraine and the Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of the Netherlands as part of the implementation clause 7 of the peace formulas. The meeting was attended by representatives of 51 countries from all continents, the EU and the Council of Europe," Mudra said on Facebook on Wednesday.