Mined lives: residents of Oleshky unite to collect information about the victims

A humanitarian catastrophe continues in occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region: the town is mined, civilians are attacked by drones, and the dead often cannot be buried for weeks. In these conditions, local residents are documenting the deaths of their relatives and neighbors on their own to preserve the truth about the crimes of the occupiers.

This was reported by Suspilne.

In the occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region, the situation for the civilian population remains critical: the city is actually cut off from basic living conditions - there is no stable electricity, water, medical care and regular food deliveries. The streets are mined, and drones are constantly flying over the city, posing a deadly threat to civilians.

According to locals, even ordinary household activities, such as going to the store or working in the garden, can result in death. People are blown up by mines or become victims of drone attacks. In some cases, the bodies of the dead remain at the sites of tragedies for weeks due to the danger of evacuation.

Residents report numerous deaths: some are killed in their own yards, others while trying to get food. Due to the lack of proper burial conditions, sometimes bodies have to be buried in a hurry or remain unburied for a long time.

A separate problem in Oleshky is the lack of medical care - ambulances do not actually work, and transportation of the sick or dead is complicated by the fighting and mining. As a result, people die even from diseases that could be cured under normal conditions.

Nevertheless, local residents who stayed in the city or left have united to collect information about the dead. They record names, circumstances and dates of death, creating unofficial lists of victims. More than a hundred names have already been collected.

Human rights activists emphasized that this initiative is extremely important for documenting war crimes and further international investigation. The collected evidence will help to recreate a complete picture of what is happening in the occupied city.

Recently, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that there have been no changes in Oleshky despite appeals to international organizations and the Russian side.

Анна Бальчінос