{"id":16815,"date":"2026-01-19T15:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:23:25","slug":"surge-in-sanctions-related-arbitration-claims-targeting-ukraine-and-its-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/01\/19\/surge-in-sanctions-related-arbitration-claims-targeting-ukraine-and-its-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Sanctions-Related Arbitration Claims Targeting Ukraine and Its Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veblen-institute.org\/Frozen-assets-hot-claims-How-sanctioned-oligarchs-other-investors-sue-over.html\">civil society report<\/a> emphasizes that the surge in sanctions-related investor-state dispute settlement (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips43'>ISDS<\/span>) claims has accelerated dramatically. At least 28 cases have been initiated or threatened by sanctioned Russian oligarchs or companies claiming total damages of approximately USD 62 billion. More than half of the cases challenging sanctions were filed in 2025 alone. Notably, Ukraine itself continues to face ISDS claims from Russian or Russia-linked entities, with seven cases brought under BITs with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips117'>EU<\/span> member states and two additional cases under the Ukraine-UK investment treaty.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips43','investor\u2013state dispute settlement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips58','soluci\u00f3n de controversias inversionista-Estado'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new civil society report emphasizes that the surge in sanctions-related investor-state dispute settlement (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips43'>ISDS<\/span>) claims has accelerated dramatically.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips43','investor\u2013state dispute settlement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips58','soluci\u00f3n de controversias inversionista-Estado'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17338,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/17338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}