Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the international community to ensure access for international missions, strengthen documentation of crimes, and create effective response mechanisms regarding the situation in the temporarily occupied Oleshky.
He wrote this in his Telegram channel.
He noted that the humanitarian catastrophe in Oleshky is worsening every day.
“The published materials from the city document widespread destruction and destroyed civilian infrastructure. The humanitarian situation in the city continues to deteriorate. People there are not living — they are surviving!”, – wrote Lubinets.
He also noted that Russia continues to manipulate the above facts.
“It shells the city itself, deliberately destroys civilian facilities, and then attempts to shift responsibility for its own crimes onto Ukraine. This is a cynical and well-rehearsed information tactic”, – he said.
Recently the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin stated that in the temporarily occupied Oleshky people are dying of hunger, residents are also dying from exhaustion and heart attacks.
According to Ukrainian authorities, in Oleshky still over 8,000 residents remain. Some of them are forced to find food on their own, including hunting wild animals.
Ukrainian authorities appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross to assist in organizing a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians and to ensure access to assistance.
Despite this, the local illegal authorities do not acknowledge that there are serious humanitarian problems in the city, and claim that there are no evacuation measures for the population there.