Residents of Luhansk region are required from looters and racketeers. Who “squeezes” the business

The occupying “authority” of Luhansk region is not concerned with the life of the population in the captured Russian cities in any way. Local residents report this on social networks.

Lysichan improvements: back in the nineties

Poprinkas promise the occupiers a “happy life” within the Russian Federation, the residents of Lysychansk have been trying to survive for several months – without water, gas, electricity and heating.

While the locals are barely making ends meet, Andriy Skoryy, the Lysichansky Gauleiter, is lining his own pockets.

The former Afghan soldier, ex-deputy mayor and owner of the “Pivdenny” private market returned to occupied Lysychansk in the 1990s.

Looting and racketeering flourished in the city.

Instead of preparing the settlement for the winter period, the so-called the “head” of the occupying “administration” of the city is now busy “squeezing out” the businesses that still remained in the captured settlement.

In social networks, they write: “In Lysychansk, Skoryy squeezed out all the profitable business, these are markets and funeral parlors. His wife is the director of the central market.”

It is also reported that instead of covering the roofs of the damaged residential buildings, roofing work continues on the territory of the “wife’s market”.

While Skoryy was “crushing” the family business, looting and racketeering flourished in the city.

Local residents talk about the robbery of houses according to a “new scheme”. Not only that the bandits carry out everything they see with impunity, they do not stop there – they break the windows in the house. Subsequently, they offer “services” for installing new windows at exorbitant prices.

Lysich residents also report on the well-established work of racketeers: they demand a considerable amount of money from businessmen for the alleged “demining” of the facility. In particular, from the owner of a shop in the area of “Matroska” mines demanded 15 thousand wooden blocks from the mines for “checking”.

According to the townspeople, military vehicles with captives came to the juvenile prison building 24 hours a day. Detainees were dragged out with bags on their heads. The Russian military used a prison for minors in captured Kherson to torture detained people. Residents of the liberated regional center told The Washington Post journalists about this. As the publication writes, occupiers’ cars with tinted glass drove up to the three-story prison building 24 hours a day, and people with bags on their heads were taken out. The townspeople admit that the screams of detainees who were being tortured could be heard from the windows of the building.

Sometimes the prison doors were opened and tortured people came out. Other prisoners were sent to other prisons and went missing.

“If there is a hell on Earth, then it was here,” 48-year-old Serhiy, who lives just opposite the prison, commented on what was happening in the city.

During his visit to the liberated city, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi also noted that the Russian military committed the same atrocities here as in other regions of the country that they captured. However, it is still impossible to name the exact number of victims of the occupiers, these facts are only being investigated. The head of the Kherson Regional Council Oleksandr Samoilenko believes that it is about thousands of prisoners.

From “wrong” words to tattoos

According to the journalists, the Russians detained local residents for completely fabricated reasons. The reason for this could be an “incorrect” tattoo, an accidentally missed word or an element of clothing that the Russian military did not like.

“They grabbed everyone they could reach: partisans, activists, anyone,” says local resident Larisa. So, one of the women in the city was detained in front of her teenage son, believing that she was helping the ZSU. 64-year-old Oleksandr Kuzmin, who was held captive by the Russians, admitted that FSB officers beat his leg with a hammer in prison. While in the cell, he heard the screams of other people who were being tortured. It will be recalled that the British Ministry of Defense was informed about the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP. According to British intelligence, the dam’s three spillway gates remained virtually intact. 

But their destruction will lead to the flooding of more than 80 settlements, including Kherson. Earlier, the Pentagon reacted to the liberation of Kherson. The US Defense Ministry notes that with the onset of cold weather, the intensity of fighting in Ukraine may decrease and emphasized that Washington’s support for Ukraine does not depend on weather conditions. Even those townspeople who joyfully waited for the “new government” with the tricolor are beginning to guess that the occupiers are not going to worry about the local population. At least, it was possible to restore electricity, gas and water within six months. However, instead of restoring the gas supply, Andriy Skory organized a PR campaign in Lysychansk: he distributed firewood for cooking to residents of high-rise buildings.

In the city of Kreminna, the occupying “authorities” also decided to postpone the restoration of the city’s housing and communal services, because in their opinion the most important thing is to erect a monument to the Russian Bolshevik Lenin.

The Russians are forcibly “evacuating” Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular from the Kherson region, to the southern regions of Russia – this is how the Kremlin wants to correct the demographic situation on the territory of the Russian Federation and prevent possible liberation movements in the future.

Center of National Resistance: “Evacuation is not voluntary. In fact, Moscow first generates a humanitarian crisis in the region and takes away medical, educational and pharmacy facilities from there.

When life is no longer in the city, residents are told about the offensive of the Armed Forces and bombing, and deadlines are set, which put psychological pressure on people. When the civilian population from the temporarily occupied territories, mainly from the Kherson region, succumbs to panic, they are “evacuated” to the southern federal district of the Russian Federation.

According to the Center of National Resistance, people are being deported to the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. At the same time, they are barred from leaving the free Ukraine. Local residents who chose to stay in the occupied territory are forced to live in conditions of a food and humanitarian crisis.

It is also reported that the occupiers are intensifying repression against the civilian population.

The Russians promise people cash payments and compensation for the purchase of housing, but this is only lip service. Russians also lure children from the temporarily occupied territories under the pretext of rehabilitation in the camps. But they refuse to return them to their parents, and when the parents leave to pick up their children, they are blocked from leaving, allegedly because the region is under “martial law”. The Center of National Resistance calls on the population of the temporarily occupied territories to leave for territories controlled by Ukraine. It is reported that it is now possible to do this through the Vasylivka checkpoint in the Zaporizhzhia region.

According to the Center of National Resistance, Ukrainians are resettled in regions that have been actively populated by the peoples of the Caucasus in recent decades. The opposition believes that the Kremlin wants to balance the demographic situation in the region in this way, because it does not reject the scenario of active liberation movements of the peoples who inhabit Russia.