The occupation authorities of the Kherson region simplified the transfer of abandoned housing for their own needs

The occupation “Kherson Regional Duma” supported a number of illegal bills that simplify the transfer of so-called ownerless property to municipal ownership.

This is reported by the occupation media.

These are decisions that actually allow the illegal disposal of property in the temporarily occupied territory.

According to the statements of the occupation authorities, such changes are supposed to help more quickly transfer official or departmental housing to specialists who are planned to be attracted to the region. Thus, the occupation administration is trying to use someone else’s property for its own needs.

The occupation authorities call “ownerless” property housing, houses or other property whose owners have left, were forced to leave the territory due to the war, or cannot confirm their rights according to the requirements of the occupation administration. Such property is declared allegedly abandoned and transferred to municipal ownership, in fact allowing it to be disposed of without the consent of the legal owners.

The head of the occupation government of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, stated that on the left bank of the region, as a result of the “inventory”, more than 50 thousand real estate objects without land were registered. Of these, more than 30 thousand were distributed between the region and the federal center.

The head of the department for documenting war crimes at the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Serhiy Movchan, noted that the “nationalization” of real estate has been observed since 2014 in the occupied Crimea. Then in the occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. After the full-scale invasion, the Russian occupiers began to apply this practice even more widely. Serhiy Movchan added that this is illegal, the Russian Federation violates Art. 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.