A critical humanitarian and infrastructural situation is being recorded in the territories liberated from the Russians. It may take decades to restore towns and villages.
After the liberation of the rest of the temporarily occupied territories, Ukraine will have similar problems that are now in the liberated part of the Kharkiv region. This was Channel 24 told by the head of the military direction of the “Sergei Prytula Foundation” Roman Sinitsyn.
“Burnt Earth”
The activist noted that the situation in the de-occupied Kharkiv region is “very bad”.
The situation is bad both humanitarian and infrastructural. Rebuild the industry. infrastructure and business will take years. Maybe even decades. The same applies to demining, because there are a huge number of problem areas, because of which both local and military people are blown up every day,” Sinitsyn explained.
According to him, there are no maps of minefields in the de-occupied territories yet, so this is also a “huge problem”.
“In fact, if other regions are liberated, there will be similar problems there. Russia leaves behind only “scorched earth” and the consequences of terror: torture, rape, dungeons. This is an absolutely systemic and mass story,” the volunteer added.
How people live in the de-occupied Kharkiv region: watch the video
The situation with infrastructure
Sinitsyn pointed out , that today in some settlements they have already started resuming power supply and communications .
The light is already being restored somewhere, as is communication. In particular, in Balakliya, which is less destroyed than Izyum and the Izyum district. In Izium, everything is really very sad. The city is almost completely destroyed. I do not know how gas supply and heating will be restored. There is no communication, as well as light. There are military and humanitarian missions,” the activist said.
He added that volunteers distribute essential goods to local residents, and also help to contact relatives.
“There are also “starlinks”. It saves a lot. Because humanitarian funds allow them to be used. And some locals call their relatives for the first time in 6 months. Many thanks to Elon Musk for this – for satellite communications, because it really saves a lot” of what decides at the front,” the volunteer emphasized.
What the locals say
According to Sinitsyn, in the de-occupied territories there are different moods among the local population .
For the most part, the Kharkiv region is not as “quick” as some cities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In particular, in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, where the “waiters” remained. The locals congratulate the military, come up and thank them. They did it especially in the early days,” the activist noted.
He said that after the liberation of the territories, people began to leave the basements, but whether they will continue to live in the destroyed cities and villages is an open question.
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“A certain percentage will, of course, leave from there. Because there are totally destroyed villages or cities, for example, Izyum. And it’s not clear how to live there in the winter. I’m sure that there will be some other outflow of the population from there,” the volunteer explained. .
According to him, activities to identify collaborators and those who collaborated with the enemy continue on the ground.
“In some cities, the Russians fled so fast that they did not destroy and did not take with them the lists of personnel and people who received Russian passports. Now employees of the National Police and the SBU are working with them,” Sinitsyn summed up.
The atrocities of the Russians in Kharkiv region: what is known
- The police informed that at least 10 dungeons were found in the territories of the de-occupied Kharkiv region. It was reported that 2 dungeons were found in Balakliya, 6 at once in Izyum and one each in the village of Grakovo and in the city of Volchansk.
- On September 15, the State Border Service reported that five teenagers aged 15 to 17 were found in Kupyansk closed by the Russian military in one of the basements.
- Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets showed footage of how the dungeon of infidels functioned in Izyum.
- Sergei Bolvinov, head of the Investigative Department of the Kharkiv Region Police, informed that during the occupation of Balakliya, the Russians always kept at least 40 people in captivity. the occupiers fed people only with porridge.
- On September 11, information appeared that the Ukrainian military entered Izyum and raised the flag of Ukraine. Subsequently, a mass grave was discovered in Izyum next to the cemetery. At least 450 graves were found there.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said that one man was strangled by infidels with a rope and buried with it around his neck. The victims of the invaders were civilians, soldiers, women and children. In particular, the invaders killed an entire family: mother, father and daughter.
- According to Zelensky, in the Kharkiv region, Russia repeated what happened in Bucha. So far, Ukrainians are just beginning to learn the full story of what happened in the temporarily occupied part of the region.
