The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has recognized the admissibility of the first claim of Ukraine as regards the Russian Federation for Moscow's actions in Crimea in 2014, in particular, on the facts of violation of human rights on the peninsula, Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko has said.

"I will start with the good news ... We announced that Ukraine would file its legal position with evidence, facts that certainly refute the false comments of the Russian Federation that the European Court of Justice [ECHR] has no right and jurisdiction to try the first case. ECHR has officially confirmed the adoption of our legal position on the first case "Ukraine vs. Russia" on the facts of illegal human rights violations in Crimea," Ukraine's minister said in Kyiv on Thursday.

Petrenko said that on March 27, 2017 Ukraine sent a package of documents with a legal position refuting Russia's arguments.

A week ago, the ECHR formally sent confirmation of the adoption of this legal position, he said.

It had been reported in February that Ukraine intended to file a total of six applications with the ECHR. At the present time, Ukraine has filed five applications against Russia with the ECHR concerning events in Crimea and Donbas. The Ukrainian Justice Ministry said the sixth application with the ECHR would concern human rights abuses in Donbas and Crimea in 2015-2016.