The occupying Kherson Regional Duma adopted a “law” that details the mechanism for seizing private property from lawful owners and transferring it to the occupiers.
The corresponding decision was published on the website of the illegal regional Duma.
Thus, housing that the occupiers have declared vacant officially becomes the property of the occupation administration or so-called municipalities.
The document explicitly allows until 2028 to provide seized apartments and houses as “official housing” for Russian military, police officers (including district police), federal officials and employees of occupation institutions.
The occupiers promise monetary compensation or alternative housing to those whose property has been seized, but with significant restrictions.
Thus, only persons with a Russian passport can claim payments or replacement housing.
An application must be submitted within 90 days from the moment the property is appropriated by the occupiers.
If there are no available apartments, people are simply put on a waiting list, the duration of which is not limited.
In February this year it became known that the occupying authorities obliged property owners on the left bank of Kherson region to submit Ukrainian documents by July 1, 2026 for “re-registration” of property under Russian legislation.
Recall, in mid-December 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows housing without an identified owner to be recognized as state or municipal property in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including Kherson region.
Earlier MOST wrote that at the beginning of 2023 the occupiers announced that they would recognize the property of residents of the TOT of Kherson region as “ownerless” in the absence of the owner. After that, on the left bank they began to massively “nationalize” real estate, and recently changed the procedure, under which they will appropriate the housing of TOT residents.