Ukraine war: Russia to give away flats in Luhansk to troops, Central Asian migrants
- Russian state employees are also being given homes abandoned by Ukrainians to carry out administrative tasks in the annexed territory
The occupying forces in the Russian-annexed Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine are preparing to transfer residential property to military personnel, the Centre of National Resistance in Kyiv said on Sunday.
Flats would not only be handed over to Moscow’s occupying forces but also to migrants from Central Asia, the centre said.
The internationally unrecognised leadership in Luhansk is preparing corresponding laws. Many Ukrainians have fled the occupied territories and left their property behind.
Immigrants from Central Asia are mainly used as cheap labour by Russia – not least for the reconstruction of towns and villages destroyed by the war.
According to a statement from the centre, the occupying forces are confiscating homes abandoned during the war and transferring them to homeless people.
Civilians are also being forcibly relocated from areas close to the front. Russian soldiers would then be housed in the civilian buildings, it said.