Confirmation of the harsh treatment of the civilian population by Russian military personnel, facts of looting by Russian servicemen (store robberies, etc.)
After the Federation’s treacherous attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, occupant troops mercilessly bombard the territory of Ukraine. In the territories temporarily under the enemy’s control, they carry out the murder, terror, and looting. Their leadership is trying to force Ukraine under their control of a wild, vicious and destitute state. When looting houses and stores, it is impressive that toilet bowls are in particular demand, so it turns out that 60% of the Russian population doesn’t have them as obvious statistics show. It reminded the warships that the federation returned to Ukraine in November 2019, the toilet bowls were also stolen there.
Stealing toilet bowls, looting churches, and rummaging through scraps: Russian occupiers engage in mass looting
Facts of looting are recorded in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kherson, and Kyiv regions
During hostilities in Ukraine, Russian occupants are looting on a massive scale in the temporarily occupied territories. The invaders are breaking into bank safes, emptying grocery stores, stealing food, clothing, electrical appliances from citizens, and even looting churches.
According to the press service of the General Staff of the AFU, incidents of robbery, violence against local residents and seizure of civilian premises are widely recorded in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kherson and Kyiv regions.
Bank robberies
Thus, on February 27, in Verkhnii Rohachyk, Kherson region, occupants took out a safe with money from the branch of PrivatBank. The corresponding video was published on YouTube.
A grocery store in Bobrovytsia was looted
On March 1, Russian occupants looted a supermarket in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region. The soldiers opened the cash register and took foodstuffs. One of them grabbed a box of tangerines for last.
They looted a church.
On the same day in the city of Koriukivka, Chernihiv region, Russian occupants looted a church at night. According to Oleksandr Koshovyi, deacon of the church of the Scinia community (Tabernacle community), they broke into the church at night. In search of food, the Russian military did not disdain to rummage even in bags with leftovers.
“They climbed in through the window and stole food from the church. Food they steal means they’re in trouble. Don’t give them anything, let them go home and ask Putin for food,” said the deacon.
They stole the toilet bowls
Also on March 1 in Kherson, the occupants burned the Fabrika shopping mall and robbed a grocery store.
“They robbed everything they could. Even the plumbing store in the Tavriiskyi microdistrict. They came in and took the toilet bowls. We were still laughing: ‘Where’s he going to take that toilet bowl in the APC? Does he want to take it home as a trophy?” – told journalist Maryna Savchenko.
A second-hand shop and people’s food were robbed
On March 2, it became known that in Trostianets, Sumy region, Russian occupants robbed a store and a second-hand shop. This was told by a correspondent of the TV channel “Ukraine 24”.
“This is how Putin’s “big and powerful” army robs ordinary stores of a small town in the Sumy region. And it’s not just stores they are robbing. In Trostianets and other towns, they have gone so far as to walk around, loot, and take food from people’s homes,” noted the correspondent.
Also, according to her, the occupants robbed a second-hand shop in Trostianets and changed into civilian clothes.
They stole stationery from the police station
On March 6, Russian soldiers left the seized police station building in Izyum, taking out everything they could take with them.
“The doors to all the offices of the police department were broken, the furnishings in the offices were disrupted, the safes were broken. Stationery, heaters, and hard drives from computers were stolen,” said Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigation department of the Main Department of the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv region
The occupants even stole stationery from the police department in Izyum. Photo: National Police
The police have already promised that all the data will be restored, and the things needed for work – will be purchased.
“We will restore the data, and buy new necessary things. The invaders will not regain their reputation for decades to come. Every crime they commit is recorded. Everyone will be punished,” promised Serhii Bolvinov.
Mink fur coats and a meat grinder were taken from MPs’ cottages.
On March 7, the Telegram channel of Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, published a recording of a telephone conversation between a Russian serviceman and his wife, in which he proudly boasted of the loot from the cottage town of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The occupant, named Seryozha, phoned his wife and told her that he had stolen two mink fur coats, a fox fur coat, an expensive machine tool, two Yamaha music speakers, a welding machine, a meat grinder, a milling machine, and then complained that he had failed to steal a 10-kVA generator.
TV in a military box
On Wednesday, March 9, the TV channel “Ukraine 24” published a video shot by the Ukrainian military. After capturing enemy equipment, AFU (The Armed Forces of Ukraine) fighters found a stolen television in one of the crates.
Robbed a village store and stole all the alcoholic beverages
In Chornobaivka near Kherson, Russian invaders also looted a village store and stole all the alcohol.
“After getting drunk, the terrorists opened fire on people’s homes. The men who argued with them, according to the locals, were shot. The exact number of dead is unknown. People in the village are scared, now mostly hiding in basements,” reported the Nikolaevskie Novosti newspaper on Thursday, March 9.
Earlier, the website “Segodnya” reported that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted amendments to the Criminal Code, providing for increased penalties for looting. The corresponding bill number 7124 was considered on March 3 at the plenary session of the Rada.
We also informed that in Ukraine in difficult times, a considerable number of looters, looting apartments and houses of Ukrainians has become more active.
Drunken occupants looted a store near Kherson and opened fire on locals: some were killed
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In the village of Chornobaivka, Kherson region, the occupants opened fire on civilians. This happened after the Russian military robbed a local store and took all the alcohol from it.
This was reported by Radio Svoboda. After drinking alcohol, the Russians began shooting at people’s homes. The men who argued with them were shot by the occupants.
The exact number of victims is unknown. People in the village are frightened, most of them are hiding in their homes.
This is not the first time soldiers of an aggressor country have opened fire on civilians. So, for example, in the village of Makarivka, they shot up a car with pensioners without even reacting to the “Disabled” sign.
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As OBOZREVATEL reported, Russian troops invading Ukraine lost more than 12,000 soldiers and officers in 14 days of war. Ukrainian forces also destroyed over a thousand armored vehicles, 303 tanks and 81 helicopters of the occupants.