They pay in hryvnias and loot granaries: Mariupol was overrun by invaders who fled from Kherson

For the second day in a row, satellite images show that more and more Russian servicemen are arriving in Mariupol and the areas closest to it. We are talking about those occupiers who ran away from the Kherson direction the other day, leaving blown-up bridges behind. This was reported by P. Andryushchenko, adviser to the city chairman.

“Yesterday, large convoys of hundreds of cars with military personnel arrived along the Mangush-Urzuf road,” the report said.

The occupiers who fled from the Kherson region are resettled in boarding houses and recreation centers in the villages of Yalta, Nova Yalta, and Yuriivka. The issue of distribution is dealt with by the occupying Ministry of Emergency Situations of Mangusha.

It is reported that now Russian ambulances are on duty at every intersection of the aforementioned road. They are waiting for the arrival of the next Russians who managed to leave the Kherson region.

Also, more and more civilian cars with Russian license plates are being noticed in the region. Their owners claim that they also came from Kherson. It is interesting that local stores still pay for goods in Ukrainian national currency.

It is also reported that the Russians are mass-exporting the grain harvest from the Mariupol district. Agricultural products are taken out every day from all granaries and elevators. All this is heading towards Rostov-on-Don.

“Looting on a state scale does not stop. This is part of the same grain that Russia so “sincerely” offers to the international community almost for nothing,” – writes the adviser to the mayor of the city P. Andryushchenko.

The scale of the thefts is such that there are huge traffic jams on the roads.

As a result of the occupiers’ blows, three residents of Bakhmut were injured. Russian troops continue to attack Donetsk region – during the day, the occupiers shelled populated areas in the Volnova, Donetsk, Horliv and Lysychan directions. As a result of enemy attacks, civilians were injured, and residential buildings were destroyed.

This was reported by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

The head of the region noted that Russian troops shelled Vugledar – four residential buildings and an administrative building were damaged in the city. In addition, there were flights on the territory of the community in the vicinity of Prechistivka, Novoukrainka and Vodyanyi. In the Donetsk direction, the night passed relatively calmly, only isolated shelling of Avdiyivka and Ocheretynsk communities was recorded. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

In Bakhmut, three civilians were injured as a result of enemy shelling. Eight private houses were damaged in Rozdolivka of the Soledar community.

Mass shelling continues in the Lysychansk direction. The Russians set fire to Torske and Zarichne in the Lyman community. More than 40 arrivals were recorded there only in the previous day. Information about the victims and destruction is currently being established.

Earlier, Russian troops shelled Kramatorsk.

The Russians shelled Toretsk – the hospital and maternity hospital were destroyed

The buildings were seriously damaged

The Russians continue to actively shell the territory of Donbas with all types of weapons. Today they shelled Kurakhove in Donetsk region, where several residential buildings were damaged. The city of Toretsk also came under fire.

This was reported by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

According to the head of the regional military administration, the hospital, the maternity hospital, and the preventive clinic were under enemy fire. The buildings were seriously damaged, but fortunately there were no casualties or damage.

Pavlo Kyrylenko draws attention to the fact that the Russians continue to attack civilian infrastructure.

Captured Mariupol remains an outpost of classic life under occupation, where the rights and freedoms of local residents are ignored and despised. Most grocery stores are closed in the city, it is almost impossible to buy clothes and shoes, and getting medical help is a big success.

The fact is that the main clinics of Mariupol cannot work under the occupiers, and those that are still open are experiencing an acute shortage of medicines and drugs.

“Local residents receive a Russian pension in rubles according to the lists, provided they have a passport and a certificate of passing the filter. For this purpose, a network of specialized checkpoints has been deployed in the city. Long queues of citizens are observed at them,” our sources share.

The invaders also suffer from chronic paranoia: local residents, moving around the city, are forced to face checks for involvement in subversive activities. Most often, the citizens of Mariupol are checked by terrorists of the so-called DPR, sometimes the searches go so far as to order them to strip down to their underwear on the street.

“Since the end of October, small groups of Kadirov officers have been arriving. According to them, they are apparently assigned to provide assistance in maintaining “law and order” in the city. They carry standard firearms, but are dressed in ordinary civilian clothes – they claim that they do not need uniforms.” – reported by eyewitnesses of the occupation. Residents of Mariupol created a stampede at the opening of a grocery store. People who have been living in total scarcity and displacement for eight months almost maimed each other in a dangerous crowd.

Before the full-scale invasion, Olga Lekunova had no military experience — after February 24, she passed through Mariupol, spent a month in a factory bunker, and spent six months in captivity.

When Russia began active hostilities, thousands of civilians went to military commissars with the desire to defend Ukraine. Among them is Olha Lekunova from Mariupol, who worked at the post office until February 24 and did not imagine herself in the ranks of the Territorial Defense.

One day changed her life forever — Olga had to go through the ordeal of service in a military hospital, life in a bunker at the named of Ilyich metallurgical plant, and finally Russian captivity. On October 17, when Ukraine released 108 women, Olga Lekunova also returned home.

Voyskova spoke about her service in Mariupol and her experiences in Russian colonies.

“She had no right to sit at home”

Olga recalls her decision at the beginning of the war – the woman immediately went to the Military Committee and joined the ranks of the Territorial Defense of Mariupol. She was inspired by her daughter’s example to take such actions.

“She is a soldier, so I had no right to sit at home when the child risks himself,” says Olga Lekunova. “In territorial defense, I was sent to a military hospital, where I performed the duties of a cook.”

There was a lot of work in the hospital – doctors were constantly treating the wounded. At the same time, there were 200-300 injured soldiers in the wards. In addition, civilians came to help.

“Medics were rescuing the wounded who tried to leave the city and could not – their cars were fired upon. There were almost no civilian doctors left at that time, so no one was refused. In addition, people often came to us for medicine,” says the military woman.

When the hospital was hit by an aerial bomb, the medics went to the Ilyich metallurgical plant. For a month, while it was still being defended, Olga lived in a bunker with other hospital workers.

“The wounded continued to be treated there, fighting continued and people were sent to us,” recalls Olga Lekunova. – As before, I prepared food – we still had vegetables and potatoes. Sometimes civilians who were also on the named of Ilyich came to us, and we shared food with them.”

“We are hated for what we are”

On April 12, when the soldiers were being taken prisoner, Olga was able to call her daughter for the last time. Then there were long months in the colonies without contact with relatives and abuse by the Russians. First, the woman got to Olenivka, and after that they were constantly transported from place to place. The women were in Taganrog, Belgorod and Kursk regions. And everywhere the Russians humiliated the prisoners.

“They beat us with electric currents, mocked us, forced us to squat 300-400 times and sing the Russian national anthem 17 times,” recalls Olga Lekunova. — But men had to do even worse, they were beaten more often. After Taganrog, we were already in purely female colonies.”

The women were fed, but very poorly. In the first two colonies, they brought one garbage. Only in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, the dinners for the prisoners resembled food more. It was also impossible to talk freely in the cells – the military were constantly listening in, there were intercoms in the premises.

“They are subhuman and hate us simply for what we are, for the fact that we live differently than they do,” Olga Lekunova is sure.

Far from all have been released yet

Voyskova recalls – in captivity, she was supported by thoughts about her daughter. Olga was able to meet her already when the released prisoners were brought to the rehabilitation center. Olga remembers the day when the women were finally exchanged as the most joyful and emotional. She didn’t believe until the last that they were all going home this time.

“At first we arrived in Crimea, and there a Russian serviceman told us that we would go to Ukraine. But I didn’t believe it until the end, until I saw our buses on the other side of the bridge. It was incredible joy,” says the military woman. Now she is in a rehabilitation center and her thoughts are with those who are still suffering from abuse in Russian captivity. There are still many doctors of the military hospital, many wounded who need help. “Only the most serious were sent to the hospital in Donetsk. All the other wounded were left in Olenivka, and they are not being given any help there. All that the doctors who are in captivity with them manage to do is bandages,” says Olga Lekunova.

Soon her rehabilitation will end, and the woman wants to continue her military service. She believes that Ukraine will definitely win, Mariupol will become Ukrainian again and all our heroes will return home.

Such actions of the Russians caused concern among parents.

Russian doctors have arrived in occupied Mariupol, Mangush and Nikolske and are collecting permission from parents to administer drugs to children, allegedly for the purpose of diagnosis.

Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the city chairman, said this.

“A separate brigade of occupiers in white coats arrived in Mariupol, Mangush and Nikolske to carry out diagnostic activities for school children. At least, that’s how it sounds officially,” Andryushchenko emphasized.

At the same time, he provides documents that require parents to sign the Russians. They indicate “administration of drugs”.

“Parents in the occupation were very worried about the papers – the consent that they have to provide. If you look carefully at clauses 3 and 4 of the consent, it really is worth thinking about, taking into account the Russians. It’s strange what kind of diagnosis is this through the administration of drugs? How can a diagnosis cause harm to health, to which the parents give their consent?”, Andryushchenko writes.

According to the chairman’s adviser, such actions of the Russians caused concern among parents, because the facts of the genocide of Ukrainians were repeatedly recorded in the occupied territories. “Maybe it’s just a stupid piece of paper by the Russians. After all, given the realities and the genocide of Ukrainians, parents of children are quite naturally sounding the alarm. Because the Russians are capable of realizing the worst expectations. Always,” Andryushchenko summarizes.

In Mariupol, occupiers are demolishing damaged residential buildings at a frantic pace, although 30% of such high-rise buildings are occupied by people.

Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the chairman of Mariupol, announced this.

“Demolition of houses is gathering pace. In total, the occupation authorities announced the demolition of 147 houses this year,” he said.

According to Andryushchenko, at least 30% of these houses are partially inhabited by Mariupol residents. Their further fate is unknown, since the occupation administration pretends that these people do not exist.

We will remind that in the village of Stary Krym, which is 5 km from Mariupol, an increase in the cemetery was noticed. A new sector of mass graves has already appeared — No. 21.