Putin Signs Law Confiscating ‘Ownerless’ Homes in Occupied Ukraine

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66381

28 Comments

  1. BearFromTheShining on

    Why would he need to sign a law for something he was already doing anyway? Doesn’t make it any less illegal.

  2. Necessary-Dot2714 on

    More 🐂💩 for Trump to blather as to why he understands Putin. They’re both glorified land speculators. We want Venezuela, Putin wants the Donbas at a minimum.

  3. Confiscating “ownerless” homes in occupied territories violates international humanitarian law and the rights of displaced Ukrainians. The world should condemn this, but we know that it won’t happen.

  4. skr_replicator on

    “Herbey it’s completely legal and ok to plunder all the homes and stuff of Ukrainians we have just murdered.”

  5. They already rename streets so the owners have no address to claim. But I guess it would be silly to rename EVERY street in occupied territories.

  6. So Zelenskyy should sign a law declaring all homes in Russia owned by soldiers who died in Ukraine as Ukraine’s property.

  7. midnightrider747 on

    Its all a sick plan to hinder a liberation later on.

    For me i would just throw all russian settlers out who dont belong there no questions asked.

    But an Army who is bound by international laws can’t displace thousands of russian settlers by a,whim or is this possible without refrain ?

  8. This isn’t new practice dressed up as law, it’s a formal legal framework that lets occupation authorities declare homes in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia “ownerless” and seize them if people can’t prove ownership under Russian regulations. Owners often can’t comply because they’re displaced or lack documents.

  9. Slow-Conflict-3959 on

    One of the first things the frozen assets should be used for is the reparations to affected Ukrainian citizens who have lost their homes and possessions.

  10. FreshPrinceOfH on

    Is Russia over populated? Is there a shortage of housing? Practically speaking what does this do for him or for Russia?

  11. They’re not ownerless, just awaiting redevelopment.
    The Ukrainian army will begin by demolishing the existing building shortly after ruZZians choose to occupy it.

  12. I think this is his tactic of “making sure” that it would against his own people, to give back land he took from ukraine. This could get ugly depending on how this would be resolved internationally…..which might not happen.

  13. What are we gonna do about it? Write a polite letter to the UN?

    Russia needs extreme consequences for what russia is doing, the leaders should pay a price for all the wrong things they propagated. Sadly now the US of A is a puppet state of russia so a lot of the leverage the world used to have is gone

  14. enn-srsbusiness on

    Nothing is ever going to get done about this. The ‘elite’ just make too much money from war. Welcome to capitalism.

  15. Gives more incentive for soldiers to kill the people who did not flee yet so their bosses can confiscate the homes

  16. RockPaperPootis on

    Murdering, deporting and exiling tens of thousands of people in the Donbas is a good way to free up real estate for colonists. Who knew.