In the TOT of the Kherson region, those who in 2023 were affected by the catastrophe at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant have found themselves in an especially difficult situation. It is particularly hard for elderly people who have also lost their passports.
This is reported by BBC NEWS Ukraine, citing residents of the TOT of the Kherson region, whose names are not disclosed for security reasons.
It is noted that the majority of those affected by the detonation of the reservoir – are residents of the occupied territories, among them – many residents of the city of Oleshky.
Oleshky was almost completely flooded, and some of its residents still live in temporary accommodation centers — and not always state-run, the publication writes.
A priest of one of the communities in the TOT of the Kherson region sheltered several elderly, solitary women from Oleshky in the building of his rural community; they are unable to receive any assistance because they lost their Ukrainian passports during the flooding of their homes.
The clergyman says the women are in a desperate situation, because the occupation administration is unwilling to issue even Russian passports to these women — and under occupation only by having such passports is it possible to try to obtain any financial assistance.
He repeatedly sought help but received a blunt reply from the occupation administration that his elderly people are of no interest to anyone. And this is far from the only case of socially vulnerable people being abandoned despite the ongoing forced passportization of able-bodied Ukrainians in the occupation, the article says.
Recently MOST wrote about the Russian Federation’s difficulties with the forced passportization of part of the population of the TOT of the Kherson region, and such population includes residents of settlements that were flooded during the occupiers’ detonation.