Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The few hundred surviving residents of the largely destroyed Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, captured by Russia in February 2024, are finding that life under Russian rule offers few comforts. They say they are facing "sabotage and abuse". ⬇️ ⬇️

https://x.com/den_kazansky/status/1788063369401937938

2/ Prior to the war, Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, had a population of about 31,000 people. Only 914 inhabitants were reported to still be remaining shortly before it fell to Russian forces. Most are likely to be old people and pro-Russian sympathisers who did not want to leave.

3/ A private Telegram channel, 'Avdiivka Rollcall', complains about the miserable conditions that the inhabitants are enduring now that Russia is in control. Perhaps not surprisingly, few of the promised benefits have arrived, despite propaganda claims to the contrary:

4/ "They shoot a lot of beautiful and cheerful videos about us, where in each story the acting head of the Yasynuvata district A.M. Penyaev and the head of the Avdiivka communal department M.T. Aseeva report: "that everything is going according to plan…

5/ …and we are not abandoning our own."

They are abandoning us!

But, if you move the camera aside and do not read the paid PR, then in the city of Avdiivka there are VERY many problems that are man-made by the current government.

6/ "1. Entry into the city is limited, you need to have a residence permit and an FSB filter.

Why do we, citizens of the Russian Federation, need such conventions?

After all, we have gone through enough checks to get the coveted passport.

7/ "We cannot come to Avdiivka and find surviving things and documents in the ruins. We cannot return home. Those who live outside the Donetsk People's Republic must register only in Yasynuvata, in other regions temporary registration in Avdiivka is not done.

8/ That is, this bureaucracy increases the time interval for a visit to the DPR, it cannot be done in a day.

9/ People need to enter the city in order to find friends and neighbors, so that they can confirm in court, in the process of restoring documents, as well as pension payments, our stay in the city during a certain period.

10/ No, it is impossible to find anything on the Internet, the connection is bad and all the neighbours are hidden under faceless links of Telegram communities.

Volunteers cannot spontaneously enter the city, they need to agree, the city is accessible only to "their" volunteers.

11/ "2. In the city, out of 19 apartment buildings, 8 have been restored, in which residents of Avdiivka have already settled for temporary residence, while the procedure for notifying owners about ownerlessness has been violated.

12/ "In total, there were 171 apartment buildings in Avdiivka, and 10 have been restored. The process is very slow and there are no prospects for restoring more than 9 buildings.

13/ "3. Uncontrolled prices in stores, prices exceed the average for the DPR and the Rostov region.

The authorities come to make a show, and the rest of the time the sellers are outrageous, since the head of the DPR has permitted cashless trade in the city.

14/ "4. With humanitarian aid, everything is very tight for city residents and those living outside the city.

Resolution 68 is too bureaucratic and the "rules" for submitting documents change every day.

If they receive assistance, then it only goes to those in Avdiivka.

15/ "Those outside its borders are not people and are deprived of humanitarian support.

5. Avdiivka is a city on gasoline batteries, although it is territorially closer than Krasnohorivka to the power grid.

16/ "But Krasnohorivka has already been supplied with electricity, and Avdiivka has been reliant on generators for a second year. Apparently, it is not profitable for someone to connect the city to the power grid.

17/ "6. As for compensation and all sorts of payments, Avdiivka citizens have received nothing.

And yes, as other citizens say, the amount per square metre is not a pittance. A pittance, for which a pensioner cannot even buy a studio in the Rostov region.

18/ "We, residents of Avdiivka and the Avdiivka direction, might want to return home, but our house is destroyed. The DPR government is forcing us to take a paltry compensation, while not informing us about plans for the restoration and development of the city.

19/ "Maybe the house is subject to restoration, but the owners are not given information. The YMO administration sends vague formal replies. Bring something up, [they say] they don’t know, and we will include it in the programme, which does not exist yet.

20/ "7. In addition to receiving formal replies and being led around by the nose, residents who have already despaired and lost hope of returning home, applied for compensation for lost housing.

21/ The Roskalastr Commission, which gives an assessment of the destruction, estimates from 36% to 45% of the remains ... FRAGMENTS of the building, which are shown in the photo.

22/ "8. The issue with tenants of non-privatised housing has not been resolved yet. Time goes by, all laws are written not to honour them.

Yes, people were negligent, did not privatise, but how many years did they have to WORK to get this municipal housing.

23/ "The housing was earned with blood and sweat, maintained for more than a dozen years in a residential condition. This is not legal, this is sabotage and abuse of the people who suffered!" /end

Source:
t.me/ve4niyvoy/4760