Wiseguy
Medlem nr.8 sen starten
- Gick med
- 6 Mar 2003
- Hoj
- Honda CBR900RR Fireblade, CBR1100XX Blackbird
Hur är livet i de ockuperade områdena (eller "befriade områdena" som vissa här vill hävda)?
"Maryna didn’t need to see the faces of the soldiers who had kidnapped her.
Even though they put a woven bag on her head, she already knew some of them by voice.
They had come to her house before, to ask questions about the residence and “stuff their faces” with apples she had sitting on her windowsill.
When they demanded $1,000 to allow her to keep the old car she and her husband used to drive on her farm, she agreed, thinking they would leave her alone after that.
Except, they didn’t. Seven soldiers, who used to roam her village near Melitopol, came knocking at her door that one September morning"
"As in all occupied territories, Russian rubles replaced Ukrainian hryvnias as the main currency. It’s forbidden to speak Ukrainian, and a Russian curriculum replaced the Ukrainian one in schools."
"While some residents collaborate with the occupiers, most of them “sit in silence, waiting for (Ukrainian) victory,” Anastasia said."
"Russians use vacated houses and apartments to reward collaborators, said Sasha, another resident who had to flee Russian torture.
Some troops go as far as taking entire nearby villages, telling residents they have “one day to pack up and leave,” Fedorov said.
They use the empty houses to quarter their troops or the soldiers’ families brought in from Russia.
“They call it ‘nationalization,”"
"Men between 20 and 50 are subjected to forced conscription to Russia’s army to fight against Ukraine, even if they are Ukrainian. Locals who refuse conscription are tortured."
kyivindependent.com
"Maryna didn’t need to see the faces of the soldiers who had kidnapped her.
Even though they put a woven bag on her head, she already knew some of them by voice.
They had come to her house before, to ask questions about the residence and “stuff their faces” with apples she had sitting on her windowsill.
When they demanded $1,000 to allow her to keep the old car she and her husband used to drive on her farm, she agreed, thinking they would leave her alone after that.
Except, they didn’t. Seven soldiers, who used to roam her village near Melitopol, came knocking at her door that one September morning"
"As in all occupied territories, Russian rubles replaced Ukrainian hryvnias as the main currency. It’s forbidden to speak Ukrainian, and a Russian curriculum replaced the Ukrainian one in schools."
"While some residents collaborate with the occupiers, most of them “sit in silence, waiting for (Ukrainian) victory,” Anastasia said."
"Russians use vacated houses and apartments to reward collaborators, said Sasha, another resident who had to flee Russian torture.
Some troops go as far as taking entire nearby villages, telling residents they have “one day to pack up and leave,” Fedorov said.
They use the empty houses to quarter their troops or the soldiers’ families brought in from Russia.
“They call it ‘nationalization,”"
"Men between 20 and 50 are subjected to forced conscription to Russia’s army to fight against Ukraine, even if they are Ukrainian. Locals who refuse conscription are tortured."
‘They’ll kill me if I come back’: Abduction, torture become routine in Russian-occupied Melitopol
In a rare glimpse, the Kyiv Independent talked to some who escaped Russian-occupied Melitopol and learned what's happening behind the curtain of Russia's occupation. Since Melitopol fell to Russian forces in March 2022, the city's residents constantly fear being kidnapped, sometimes in broad...
kyivindependent.com
