Thread by @garbanzo0813

Original thread by @infrrrared on what it's like to live in in Svatove (Luhansk region of #Ukraine) under ru occupation

https://twitter.com/infrrrared/status/1517153314894344195?s=20&t=l-WTjGVXxLJUoA7XqSuXmg

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1/21
There is no shooting in Svatove, but people disappear there ...

2/21
cars are hustled away, streets renamed, DSNS (ua emergency service acronym) renamed to MChS (ru equivalent), opened the banks of the so-called lnr (luhansk people's republic) and a tax office, MREO, GIBDD (ru public/state institutions) and other letter fuckery, which I ...

3/21
don't even know how to decipher. Also the occupants go from house to house and look for AFU (armed forces of Ukraine), ATO veterans (anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine).

Rubles were introduced. You can also pay in hryvnia, but mainly in cash, which you ...

4/21
can't withdraw anywhere. Also they prohibit to plant sunflowers (rumors).
Took farmers by the throat - either you re-submit the docs and work for lnr or your land is taken away from you and a new manager is assigned.

There is no mobile communication starting from around...

5/21
March 8th - that's the present the occupants have given. Somewhere around that time they started jamming TV channels - now there is only russian TV. Brought in Luhacom (mobile operator) sim-cards. Prices have risen to an incredible level, but petrol and diesel cost little

6/21
The occupants have arrived with pre-made signs, which they stuck onto the buildings of police, prosecutor's office etc. Now they're actively issuing lnr car license plates.

Many people changed coats - both council members and ordinary people. Some are just ambitious idiots

7/21
who couldn't achieve anything in Ukraine, others are a heard screaming: "Ez loung ez zey dount shuut". They spoke in surzhyk (a mix of Ukrainian and russian languages) all their life, and are now trying to convert into russian. This is pathetic.

There are a lot of...

8/21
displaced individuals in the city, from different hot spots in Luhansk area. I mostly hear about people from Rubizhne. And many of them have consciously left specifically here, because this is the occupied territory and there is no shooting. I know that there are also people

9/21
from Shchastya, I heard about a family of reasonable people.

There was no evacuation from Svatove, because the city is occupied. This makes logical sense. People could have left to Dnipro with their own car or a bus - there were people willing to transport. Somewhere

10/21
around a week ago the occupants have shot the buses and now no one is leaving, only, maybe, to russia.

And the local chats are filled with russki mir (ru for russian world). My friend and I were even banned in one of the Svatove chats, because they didn't like that we

11/21
pointed out about the correct writing of "in Ukraine" (as opposed to common ru way of saying "on Ukraine", referring to a simple geographical area, not a separate country). There are other Svatove telegram channels with the pro-Ukrainian position.

You can't imagine...

12/21
what's going on in the chats of different town in Luhansk area, what people write there. The only thing that's missing is the Z in the profile picture. Latest - countless "eye-witnesses" claim, that AFU are shooting to kill those who try to evacuate on foot or by car.

13/21
All of this makes me incredibly sad and afraid. We will fight back our lands, but what next? These people will live and will continue to say that Ukraine is bad, zey shood hev stoppd shuuting, AFU woz killng uz. We need to start thinking now what to do with them after

14/21
our victory, because leaving it like this is not an option.

I will also add about Svatove. In the last week a very large number of occupant heavy vehicles drove through the city. The made a hub there, because it's located in the north east - it is still the Luhansk

15/21
oblast, but an hour away from Kupyansk. They also dug trenches in the villages.

Even two weeks ago they came to the hospital and were looking at which equipment can they steal and move to russia or into the occupied Luhansk. Laid eyes on the new CT machine.

Now they...

16/21
chased away the sick to the ground floor of the hospital, all the other departments were turned into the infirmary where they treat the occupants

Pleasant news - people say that the morgue is overfilled with 200s (KIA military code) and they already started to move

17/21
them out with helicopters.

Unpleasant news - media changed they coats, Svatove.City really stings. Now they write "ebaut ze repablik" in two languages, changed their logo. I hope these pages were just hustled away from the journalists.

And, well, they also...

18/21
sell yucky products there, from the so-called lnr/dnr - sausages that look like they've been made out of the occupants, candies. Yesterday I saw a photo of a beer called "Legend of Donbas".

As I've already written, they want to make schools in russian language only and

19/21
eliminate some subjects. But I know, that many parents are afraid to let their children go there. There is information that the principal of the 8th school started collaborating with the occupants.

I believe in our victory, believe in the AFU! And I don't even have any...

20/21
doubts, that Svatove will be liberated. I'm just afraid, that the occupants have set their "ways" so quickly that they have already caused the harm. And we don't know how much more will they manage to do.

21/21
Because there's a bit more left and then there will be the pseudo-referendum and mobilisation.