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Over 200 towns in Russian-occupied Luhansk region have no functioning grocery stores

29 September, 2024 Sunday
15:40

In over 200 settlements in what Russia calls the Luhansk People's Republic, occupied by Russian forces in 2014 and 2022, there isn’t a single grocery store

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This news comes from Artem Lysohor, the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration.

According to him, these towns and villages belong to 22 administrative units, indicating that the lack of infrastructure affects communities occupied in both 2014 and 2022.

Lysohor emphasized that in the past decade, the occupying army has done nothing to improve conditions - “there's nowhere to buy bread.”

Recently, mobile shops have started making infrequent visits, operating for just one to two hours twice a week before moving on to nearby villages. 

“Russian forces have turned some previously thriving settlements in the Luhansk region into a ‘Russian hinterland,’” Lysohor noted.

  • On September 27, nine children aged 13 to 17 and a 20-year-old man were returned from the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk regions, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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