Ukrainian families forced to leave their homes are grappling with the horror of being replaced by Russian strangers. Some looted their houses, others killed their pet dogs.
, some Ukrainians who managed to avoid life under occupation have already received the devastating news that Russian soldiers and civilians have moved into their homes.who owns a second home and two businesses on the Kinburn Peninsula. She requested her last name be withheld for the protection of loved ones living in occupied areas.
Over the years, Inna developed deep ties with her second home on the Kinburn Peninsula—evening purchasing a farm, her third property in the region. The rural community of the region was meant to be a place of solitude, but when the full-scale invasion began in February of last year, life on the Kinburn Peninsula came to an immediate halt.
On June 23, 2022, Inna said that she stopped being able to access surveillance footage of her hotel. She was told by her informants in the region that “[Russian soldiers] shot the cameras… So it was not possible to see anymore what was going on,” as they proceeded to loot the hotel. “So they were coming with trucks and taking stuff,” said Inna.
In Severodonetsk, a city in the eastern Luhansk oblast, a woman in her thirties who asked to be referred to as “Victoria” was told by family members that a Russian worker had moved into her childhood apartment sometime during the fall of 2022.Handout Since her mother escaped, Victoria has tried to remain in contact with family members who stayed in Severodonetsk, which remains occupied today.
“He [relative] rang the doorbell, and a strange man, a Russian, opened the door. He was some kind of worker who was brought from Russia to work in the city,” said Victoria. Victoria acknowledged that the apartment is just “walls,” but she said it is more than that to her and her family. The apartment is “filled with memories. It’s our history, my family’s life.” Victoria noted that since 2014, she has been forced out of her home by Russians twice.
Eventually, he was persuaded, and the couple attempted to evacuate to Poland on April 14, 2022. At the time, there were already Russian checkpoints that the couple had to pass through to escape their village. According to Iryna, the soldiers who stopped her car were from thean internally unrecognized republic of Russia that was annexed from Ukraine during the 2014 invasion.
But in November 2022, Iryna received a text message from a former classmate of her daughter, which was seen by The Daily Beast. “Bad news,” the classmate said, before explaining that a Russian collaborator in the village had allegedly given soldiers a document which claimed that Iryna had given permission for enemy soldiers to live in her home, with a forged signature.
“I knew that it will happen, that someday they will come there and settle there. I didn’t have hysteria. I accepted this. Let it be as it will be. I will never return to that house. I knew that I would never return. My house was robbed,” said Iryna, adding that the woman had told her that soldiers had “looted the house, took the fridge, all my new furniture, mattress.”
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