In Sevastopol, people were forced to demolish their own houses to hand them over to the Russian army

In Sevastopol, the occupation authorities are forcing residents of Kozacha Bay to demolish their homes after a court ruling to transfer the land to the Russian Defense Ministry. People who bought the plots officially now risk being left without housing and compensation.

This was reported by Suspilne. Crimea.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, through the occupation courts, has managed to evict residents of the Kozacha Bay neighborhood in Sevastopol. It is about the land plots, which the court recognized as the property of the Russian military department, and all the buildings on them - to be demolished at the expense of the owners.

The occupation editorial office received a collective appeal from residents of Viyskovykh Budivelnykiv Street. It states that people who bought or built housing on these plots were threatened with the loss of property after the court upheld the demands of the Russian Ministry of Defense to demolish the buildings and return the land.

The residents claim that they acted legally: before buying, they checked the documents, obtained extracts from the Russian real estate register without encumbrances and formalized the transactions. However, later they began to receive lawsuits from the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Crimean Territorial Department of Property Relations, which claimed that the land belonged to the territory of the former military town.

The residents' appeal also noted that many had invested all their savings in housing: some took out mortgages, received subsidies, or sold other property to buy land and build.

Later, it turned out that in 2018, the occupying Haharinsky District Court ruled to return these lands to the ownership of the Russian Ministry of Defense. At the same time, this information was not entered into the Russian real estate register, which is why the plots continued to be sold and the authorities issued building permits.

Earlier, the Center for Countering Disinformation reported similar cases of land confiscation from owners in Kozacha Bay. In addition, similar situations are recorded in other areas of the occupied Crimea. In particular, in the village of Uyutne, Yevpatoria district, the houses of at least 80 families who registered their land according to the rules established by the occupation authorities themselves are under threat of demolition.

Анна Бальчінос