Thanks to the support of the NGO FUVI, Attorney Nicolas Ligneul is currently in Ukraine on a particularly intensive mission, marked by meetings with government officials, testimonies from victims, and concrete acts of solidarity.
The mission began with a meeting at the National Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, alongside Yevgeniia Mnishenko, a Ukrainian attorney who has been a partner of the firm for five years, and teams dedicated to serving justice—sometimes at the risk of their lives. Attorney Ligneul then traveled to the Crimean Mission to work alongside the Crimean diaspora, which—despite war crimes and the arrests of opponents—is resisting the attempt to erase its identity.
In Zaporizhzhia, the mission took on several forms. Maître Ligneul hosted a press conference for journalists and NGOs from southern and eastern Ukraine to present the compensation mechanisms available through the ICC, the TSA, and the Rd4U program. He also visited a school built seven meters underground with support from the European Union—a courageous response by Ukrainian teachers in the face of bombardment, to continue passing on their culture and language. It was also from Zaporizhzhia that FUVI shipped laptops donated by the Dyonisian League for Secular Education of Seine-Saint-Denis to students in schools displaced from the occupied territories—a beautiful gesture of solidarity between France and Ukraine.
In Dnipro, he met with representatives of displaced persons from Mariupol and the occupied territories, whose testimonies are being used to support cases brought before international courts. Finally, in Poltava, a scientific collaboration is taking shape with the local polytechnic university, in partnership with the Faculty of Law at Paris-Est Créteil—an academic bridge between the two countries, sponsored by FUVI and the Ligneul law firm.
These field missions are at the heart of FUVI’s commitment: to be present where victims need to be heard, represented, and supported in their quest for justice.
