On 14 March 2018, the Supreme Court of Ukraine established the fact that forced displacement in July 2014 of the applicants in a case from the “occupied part of the Luhansk region” occurred as a result of the “armed aggression” of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the occupation of the part of the Luhansk region by the Russian Federation. Both the first instance court and the court of appeal rejected the application indicating that the establishment of such reasons for internal displacement and its further clarification into a legal fact do not fall under the competence of the court of general jurisdiction. The Supreme Court decided to establish a clear link between the “widely known and accepted fact of the Russian aggression” and the forced displacement.
