Ukrainians' property is being hunted in Crimea

In the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, the occupation authorities have adopted the experience of other occupied regions in seizing other people's property.

This was reported by the National Resistance Center.

To identify the property of people who left the region because of the occupation, the Russians have connected utility providers and inventory bureaus. If such property is found, the occupiers declare their administration the "sole heir".

In particular, this practice is observed in the north of the occupied peninsula. In this way, the enemy is actually hunting for someone else's real estate. Later, such housing is provided to collaborators or families of Russians.

On October 10, Intent reported that the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea sent to court indictments against two "judges" who made illegal decisions to evict Ukrainian citizens from Crimea.

The actions of the defendants are classified as violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The sanction of the article provides for up to 12 years in prison, the statement said.

The investigation established that in 2014, the accused took up the positions of "judges" in the occupation "Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol" and "Kirovsky District Court of the Republic of Crimea".

Knowing that the residents of the occupied peninsula are protected by international humanitarian law under the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the defendants made illegal decisions in 2017-2018 to evict two Ukrainian citizens from Crimea. They motivated this by allegedly "violating the regime and terms of stay in the territory of the Russian Federation by foreign citizens".

However, Ukrainian legislation and international humanitarian law do not provide for any permits from the occupation administration to continue the residence of Ukrainian citizens on the temporarily occupied territory of the peninsula.

On September 13, Intent reported that an occupation official from Crimea will be tried for treason and collaboration. The investigation established that before the occupation of the peninsula, the citizen of Ukraine held the position of First Deputy Head of the Territorial Department of the State Committee of Ukraine for Mining, Industrial Safety and Labor Protection in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

However, in 2014, the accused betrayed the oath of a civil servant and began working in the occupation Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as a "head of department" and later as a "deputy head". In addition, in May 2023, he was appointed "acting head" of the said occupation agency, which he still heads.

In this position, the "official" contributes to the implementation of the policy of the aggressor state and ensures the activities of its occupation executive bodies in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.

Ігор Льов