Poland Is Preparing A Lawsuit Against Russia For Reparations

• 17.02.2026, 10:38

The initiative is being implemented on behalf of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Poland has started preparing a lawsuit against Russia demanding reparations for crimes committed during the Soviet period. The initiative is being implemented at the behest of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, writes Financial Times.

The country intends to demand 1.3 trillion euros in compensation from Russia, as it did from Germany for World War II crimes.

Bartosz Gądek, director of the institute commissioned by Tusk to look into Russia's historical crimes, said the investigation would be far more extensive than his work on Nazi brutality, in particular taking into account more than four more decades of the Cold War when Poland remained under Soviet influence.

Gądek said the team of about 10 Polish historians faces more hurdles than calculating German reparations and called the inquiry a "long-term project." He emphasized that Polish historians do not have access to particularly sensitive Russian archives, and many documents were falsified or destroyed during the Soviet period.

The publication recalled that Poland's lawsuit against Germany remains unresolved. Thus, Germany claims that the issue of reparations was legally closed after World War II.