Mealey's ( August 18, 2025, 12:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of Ukrainian companies that won arbitral awards worth more than $34 million after the Russian Federation was found liable by an arbitral tribunal for the seizure of their assets in Crimea filed an appellee brief on Aug. 15 in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that Russia is improperly seeking to “conflate . . . jurisdictional and merits-based questions” in its interlocutory appeal challenging a lower court’s finding of jurisdiction....