The judgment of the English Court of Appeals in the dispute between Ukraine and Russia over the $3 billion eurobond debt allows hearing the case regarding of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on merits, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"Everyone talks about our victory in the English Court of Appeal, and they say the right thing! However, the main thing is that now the English court will be able to hear the case regarding the Russian pressure and Russian aggression against Ukraine on merits. I think that no one doubts its neutrality," Klimkin wrote on his page in Twitter on Friday, September 14.

In his turn, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman on his Facebook page said on Friday: "The case of Yanukovych's debt to the Russian Federation was returned to the court of lower instance. The Kremlin's request to give $3 billion to Kyiv at the end of 2013, is not satisfied, but our right to call things by their own names has been restored."

As reported, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine reported that the English Court of Appeals expressly reflected in its Judgment that the government of the United Kingdom "regards the activities of Russia in seizing the Crimea and assisting military action by insurgents in Eastern Ukraine against the Ukrainian government as being in clear violation of Russia's obligations under international law, including in particular its obligations under the norm of ius cogens reflected in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter."

"As the Court of Appeal held in its judgment, such a course, which Russia chose, has been held by the Court to be contrary to "basic justice" and "unjust," the ministry said.

Among the reasons cited by the Court for rejecting Judge Blair's belief that he could not hear Ukraine's defense of duress is that "no country should be able to take advantage of its own violation" of international law, the ministry said.