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What is happening in Oleshky and Hola Prystan now? (These Ukrainian towns have been occupied by Russia since Feb‘22 and are now flooded because Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam)
Some of the townspeople managed to escape from there, this is what they say:
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Some of the townspeople managed to escape from there, this is what they say:
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1. 20-day lockdown, they are not allowed to leave or enter the cities. Volunteers who have aid are unsuccessfully trying to break into that area.
2. Dry-land areas are blocked with checkpoints (10-20% of the city) at which russian occupiers simply rob people, tear up Ukrainian documents, break into the houses that have not yet been robbed. They tell to the locals, “We’ll be saved but you will die here.”
3. People are not allowed to leave the town without a Russian passport. Most people don’t have one.
4. On the first day, many people escaped in their underwear and had no clothes.
4. On the first day, many people escaped in their underwear and had no clothes.
5. Locals try to help each other, rescue animals, collect all the food and medicine left in the city. Important to note - after the dam was blown up, the Russian military went around Oleshky and confiscated people’s metal or plastic boats with engines.
6. The Russians disinformed ppl claiming that the water would stop in a few hours and there was no need to evacuate, many people drowned particularly due to this disinfo.
7. Hola Prystan was flooded on the second day, not on the first, when people already thought that the water had stopped.
8. There are recorded cases of the Russians shooting those who tried to evacuate. Soldiers on boats patrol the city, ignoring people and animals who are drowning or sitting on the roofs of houses.
9. Corpses of people, animals, equipment, and Russian soldiers themselves are floating around the houses. The Russians have set up ambushes, they promise to bring another thousand soldiers into the city in the next few days for “filtration.”
10. The Russians also did not inform about the dam explosions. The locals learned the news thanks to Ukrainian TV and the Internet.
These people are frightened, not ready to talk on camera and share their contacts, so please don’t message me about them. However, we managed to voice-record a few testimonies which will be published on @ukrainer_en anonymously
What is this, if not genocide?
trnsl: @YuliaTymosha
What is this, if not genocide?
trnsl: @YuliaTymosha
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