Articles with a tag: occupation

«У мене більше немає мрій. Я боюся навіть мріяти, що знайду тіло Олега. Найбільше, чого хочеться, – повернути все назад. Але я знаю: Олег усе одно не виїхав би з окупації. Бо він не така людина», -ділиться з нами 49-річна Олена Ковалик з села Миролюбівка Нововоронцовської громади Херсонщини. 

Події тих днів і досі стоять перед її очима. Перед зникненням чоловіка російські військові вдиралися до будинку Коваликів 16 разів – це почалось відразу після окупації села. 

Since the beginning of the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have regularly turned occupied South of Ukraine into its military base and used civilians as “human shield”. 

Russian occupants use illegally “expropriated” private houses, apartments, resort complexes and hotels as their military barracks and hospitals. Ukrainian factories are exploited to repair Russian damaged military equipment and armored vehicles. Russian troops have also turned Ukrainian natural reserves and agricultural lands into military training grounds where Russian soldiers learn how to kill Ukrainians. 

The Center for Journalist Investigations identified more than twenty training camps of the Russian Army on occupied lands to the north from the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. Their total area is around 50 thousand hectares. 

The Russian occupation army occupies houses of Ukrainians in cities and villages of Zaporizhzhia region. The Center for Journalist Investigations identified dozens of settlements where houses have been confiscated by Russian occupation administrations. Russian troops settle in houses of those Ukrainians who fled to the territory controlled by Ukraine. Or Russian military turn them into their potential strongholds.

The CJI keeps filling in its interactive online map with cities and villages of Zaporizhzhia region where the Russian occupation army has turned Ukrainian houses into its military positions. We received new data from various sources which confirms our initial hypothesis.