Residents of Marinka: Ukrainian soldiers rob us, “squeeze” our houses and throw us out onto the street

In Marinka, Ukrainian soldiers are moving en masse into the houses of local residents along the contact line and robbing them.

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About it The correspondent reports.

Local civil authorities encourage people to write complaints, which yield no results.

Residents of the town of Maryinka, in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the former Donetsk region, are complaining about military personnel forcibly evicting them from their homes. Marauding soldiers prefer well-furnished and tidy housing, people say.

In addition to settling in abandoned houses, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers often expel residents who remained in the town, victims complain. According to them, in some cases the eviction took place by force, without the right to take away, -  says the head of the local police controlled by Kyiv, Vyacheslav Abroskin.

An initiative group of Marinsky residents, who were thrown out of their homes by the Ukrainian military, organized themselves through social networks. According to victims, there are many incidents related to “wild” evictions in the city.

“We have made statements to the military and civilian authorities. The first time our appeals were lost. And only the second time they were officially registered,” residents said.

Also, as residents report, there was a commission in the city on this issue, but it consisted only of military personnel. That is why, according to Maryinsk residents, the commission did not find any violations.

“And if they did find them, the military said that the owners personally let them in and agreed to stay,” said resident Nikolai.

Recently, a decision was made to create a new commission, which already included representatives of the City Council. The head of the local police controlled by Kyiv, Vyacheslav Abroskin, also met with people.

“The problem is that these households and apartments are located directly in the shelling zone,” Abroskin said on his Facebook page.

At the same time, according to Abroskin, “there is a question about the coexistence of the residents of Marinka and military units.”

Nadezhda, a resident of the village of Novomaryinka, which is located on the outskirts of Maryinka closer to Donetsk, told how the military take away housing.

According to her, there have been a lot of such incidents. In her case, soldiers occupied the house when she, her husband and mother, went to visit relatives in Kurakhovo, and when she returned, she was not allowed into her own home.

Previously, as Nadezhda said, the 28th mechanized brigade from Odessa was stationed in the village. There were no conflicts between the locals and the fighters.

But recently the security forces were replaced and everything changed radically, the interlocutor claims.

“We ask where you guys are from, what brigade, who is your commander. But to this they answer: “You don’t need to know that,” the woman said.

Moreover, as soon as they arrived in the village, they immediately occupied all the houses in the area located on the line of contact with Donetsk.

“My house is on Mira Street. Now they don’t let me in there to pick up any things. They point a machine gun at me and threaten that they will completely rake the house with an excavator. They simply shot through the lock, entered the house and now walk around with shoes on and sleep on the beds with shoes on,” Nadezhda said.

The woman also said that a week ago the military allowed her mother into the garage. All things were missing from the premises, Nadezhda claims.

“They stole an angle grinder, a drill, a welding machine. Everything my husband bought,” - she said.

Moreover, according to her, in the microdistrict that the soldiers occupied, locals have been allowed in for 4-5 days only with their passports, which indicate their registration.

Now local authorities are asking residents, if they discover cases of houses being occupied by employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without the consent of the owners, to contact the Maryinsky City Council and the leadership of the military law enforcement service in sector B.

All two applications must be submitted to the Maryinsky City Council. Examples of statements published on the social network VKontakte in the group “Marinka 24”.