Russia Cuts Funding for Kherson Occupation, Straining Administrations

Russia is forced to reduce funding for the occupation administrations in the Kherson region due to the deteriorating economic situation. This leads to a massive withdrawal of imported officials who previously received high salaries.

This was stated by Serhiy Danilov, Deputy Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, on Vgrosho TV channel.

According to him, the occupation administrations used to be replenished with new "managers" on a temporary rotation, but now there are much fewer of them. For example, in some settlements of the Genichesk district, only one official was returned instead of five.

The reduction of the staff complicates the work of administrations and creates chaos in the management system. At the same time, the Kremlin is trying to compensate for the lack of staff by recruiting military personnel to managerial positions. The occupying head of Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, announced a program to train military personnel and veterans for leadership positions.

According to Danilov, this program performs several functions at once: it supports the spring conscription by promising prospects to the military and strengthens the Kremlin's control by replacing local managers with loyal military personnel.

In the Kherson region, where there were more than 10,000 historical and cultural monuments before the full-scale invasion, the Russian occupiers are destroying the archaeological heritage by building fortifications.

Earlier, Intent wrote that Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson regions were among the ten regions where cultural heritage sites were most affected by Russian aggression.

In July, the total number of affected sites increased by 11. Currently, 1096 cultural heritage sites have been damaged.

Of these, 121 are of national importance, 892 are of local importance, and 83 are newly discovered.

Thus, 314 sites were damaged in Kharkiv region, 150 in Kherson, 125 in Donetsk, 116 in Odesa, 69 in Chernihiv, 69 in Kyiv and Kyiv city, 49 in Zaporizhzhia, 45 in Mykolaiv, 39 in Dnipro, 36 in Lviv, 31 in Luhansk, 27 in Sumy, 10 in Khmelnytsky, 6 in Poltava, 4 in Vinnytsia, 4 in Zhytomyr, 1 in Kirovohrad, and 1 in Cherkasy.

Андрій Колісніченко