‘They Moved Into My Home’: How Russians Are Confiscating Homes en Masse in Ukraine

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1. Well at least we learn something valuable from this whole mess: scorched earth is still a valid strategy in 2025, especially against russia.

2. That’s no surprise. Russians will steal everything, including what is bolted down.

   They’ll be in a big shock once they see indoor plumbing and toilet that flush shit away with simply a press of a button.

3. Glad to see good journalism can still come from France considering some Kremlin-friendly billionaires are going around buying the media (Bolloré, Stérin)

4. This reminds me of the Serbs moving in in occupied Croatia in 1992-1995…until the Croats took back the territory and all of the Serbs left with the retreating Serbian forces…

5. For those who can’t be bothered to read:

   – if you have fled Russian-occupied Ukraine, your property is designated as abandoned by Russia
   – to maintain your ownership, you have to go to Russia and accept Russian citizenship

   And this is the part that Le Figaro doesn’t mention: even if you are willing to go through this, your success is not guaranteed. You have to fly into Šeremetjevo airport where you will be interviewed and your phone scanned by FSB agents. If they find something they don’t like, like an active or deleted subscription to a pro-Ukraine TG channel or a trident tattoo or a family member in the armed forces (and you have to be terminally stupid to fly into Russia after supporting the troops directly), then you are not allowed to enter the country and your property is effectively lost.

6. Well if they advance towards Europe next, we will have to booby trap our houses….

   I’m not leaving them anything….

7. Russia doing genocide and settler colonialism as usual (it’s the largest landmass country in the world) and the West pretends it’s just one old guy in the Kremlin.

8. Maybe they were promised to them 3,000 years ago.
   Seriously, what do those Russians expect to do and to find in there?

9. The Soviets took my family’s house in Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1949. Just restitution laws in reindependent Estonia meant that we got the house back almost five decades later.

10. It is exatly the same they did after the second world war in the territories they conquered

11. Ahhhh just like the Israelis in the West Bank. Sneaky bastards

    Slava Ukraini 🙏🇺🇦

    Glory to Ukraine
    Слава Україні

12. Animals

13. “Russkyi mir” in action…

14. where are all the Israelis criticizing this?

15. It’s like every time war happens people throw their arms up in the air and ask “how could they do this”

    Really? Thing? The thing that has happened during every armed conflict in the history of human warfare yet remains shocking somehow?

    War never changes

16. Seems like copying what Israelis did in the 50s in Palestine, if they hold on at these homes for a bit America might come to help them settle properly

17. Fuck… imagine the original Palestine… it’s the same thing happening again and we aren’t doing enough to stop it. I actually give up on all these stupid politicians and those who support them.. humanity is stuck in a cycle of atrocities and it won’t stop anytime soon!… I’m literally looking for the perfect remote land to build a cabin/homestead and live out the rest of my life.

18. Russia really is the cancer of this planet.
    Sincerely: -Your neighbor

19. They’re Israeli-ing people’s homes lmao

20. A west bank-like occupation of Ukraine is the last thing the world needs right now

21. If Putler manages to to arm 1 million Cossacks, you can kiss Europe goodbye.

22. not so fun when it happens to whites, is it?

23. This is a colonial war, so the objective is to make it impossible/undesirable for Ukraine to want the lands back.

    Every if ( big if ) a peace agreement is signed, will Ukraine want back lands that are now 90%+ inhabited by Kremlin loyalists? Doubtful, which is the point of this policy of settlement.

24. They’re doing a human rights violations checklist it seems

25. Same old Russian shit

26. Is this a crime? Israel must be worried.

27. Very russian thing to do.

28. if you abandon your property for several years (and presumably don’t pay a single ruble of property tax the entire time), the government begins foreclosure proceedings and takes steps to notify you (for example, by posting a notice on your front door).

    this is a normal practice in most countries, but when russia does it it’s bad for some reason.

29. Worked for Israel.

30. Now where have I heard that one before?

31. Ukraine will eventually prevail. All those rats will run away and back where they crawled out from.

32. I had business trip, when russia occupied my city. I lost my flat and house, some land. But biggest problem that I lost my family photos. It was a lot of photos from few generations of our family.

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