Occupiers are taking sunflower seeds out of the Kharkiv region and issuing their own ‘documents’

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022, 20:32

On Thursday, the Russians took at least 15 KAMAZ trucks loaded with sunflower seeds out of the occupied village of Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, heading towards the occupied areas of Luhansk Oblast.

Source: Village Council of Borova

Quote: "The occupiers are continuing to steal massive amounts of the agricultural produce of last year's harvest from the occupied territories. Yesterday, they took at least 15 KAMAZ trucks full of sunflower seeds out of Borova. The trucks set off in the direction of Starobilsk (occupied territory in Luhansk Oblast)."

Details: The Village Council also reports that the occupiers in Borova have started issuing documents printed on a computer printer such as birth, death and other certificates which state that Borova belongs to the Kupiansk district of Belgorod Oblast in the Russian Federation. Forms are being distributed in occupied Kupiansk itself which say "City of Kupiansk, Luhansk Oblast, Russian Federation". The Village Council emphasised that these ‘documents’ have no legal force.

However, the occupiers have made it a condition for entrepreneurs and farmers in the occupied territories of the Borova village community to give 50% of their profits or harvest to the occupying authorities. Those who don’t agree are threatened that their business/land/property will be taken away and transferred to other more convenient ‘owners’."

No fighting is currently taking place in the territory around Borova, but there is a constant Russian military presence, in varying numbers, in the settlements of the community. According to aerial reconnaissance, the greatest concentration of the invaders’ manpower and equipment is observed in the east and south of the community, in the villages that are geographically close to Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. There are also occupying troops in the villages of Pidvysoke, Horokhovatka and Bakhtyn.

It is noted that the people who live in the occupied community continue to survive in difficult conditions without mobile communications or Internet. Some villages still have no electricity. The products delivered to shops from Russia and temporarily occupied areas of Luhansk Oblast are mostly of low quality. There is a shortage of medicines in the pharmacies. The inability to convert money into cash is a big problem.