Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents who fled Mariupol, a BBC Verify investigation has found as the city marks three years of occupation.
At least 5,700 homes have been identified for seizure, our analysis of documents published by the Russian-installed city authorities since July 2024 shows.
To save their homes, Ukrainians would have to face a dangerous return to Mariupol via Russia, gruelling security checks, a complex bureaucratic process and overwhelming pressure to accept a Russian passport.
Most of the impacted properties were once occupied by Ukrainians who either fled or died during Russia’s 86-day siege of the strategically important city in 2022. Human Rights Watch said the bombardment killed more than 8,000 people, but noted that figure is “likely a significant underestimation”.
The similarity between Russia and Israel are starting to get weird. Is Russia trying to reenact the Nakba or something?
Read up on the Holodomor, and more broadly, the Tsarist- and Soviet-era tactics that have been used by Russia throughout their history to fragment, undermine, and winnow away at non-Russian ethnic groups that they’ve subsumed in their expansionist conquests.
They want to be more effective with it…
Starting?
