“If the state allowed this situation and could not protect us from the enemy, then let them take responsibility and somehow arrange our future life.”
Residents of the Sheptukhovsky village Council of the Korenevsky district of the Kursk region massively record video messages with complaints to Putin, the government and Russian deputies. They claim that the authorities still have not helped them with housing, which was destroyed after the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the region.
The head of the Sheptukhovsky village Council, Yuri Tkachev, also joined the appeals. Residents and the head have published all the videos on the official page of the village Council in VK, ASTRA drew attention.
“For 3 months now, as a special military operation has been ongoing on our territory, people have been forced to leave their homes. <…> Thank God, in our settlements only one person was killed and one was missing. The rest were self-evacuated or with the help of other caring people. <…> But I want to ask for help from the state: please support our people. <…> Our settlements are 50% destroyed, and some even more. The entire infrastructure has been damaged. <…> At the moment, even getting there is very dangerous. <…> For some people, everything burned down. Please do not delay, people are already boiling with pain and suffering, they began to record appeals like me,” said Yuri Tkachev, head of the Sheptukhovsky village Council, in the video.
“We are slowly being led to the idea that they will bring us back, build us standard buildings, we are against it. They explain this by saying that there will be no one to work at their enterprises. But we are not slaves! We must have the right to choose. If the state allowed this situation and could not protect us from the enemy, then let them take responsibility and somehow arrange our future life,” said one of the local residents.
“I appeal to the servants of the people. We lost our housing and everything else. How can we continue to exist? <…> I appeal to the deputies with a cry of the soul: we are elderly people, we have no income, <…> now we rent an apartment, it costs us dearly,” says another local resident.
“I have a feeling that they have already forgotten about us. <…> I just want to ask for help so that we can either get a certificate or be provided with housing,” said another resident of the village council, who with 9 foster children is forced to live in a two—room apartment of his daughter and her husband.
Residents of the Sheptukhovsky village Council also claim in the video that during the fighting the authorities did not organize the evacuation, everyone left on their own. In response to one of the appeals, the government of the Kursk region stated that “the issue of providing social support measures to residents of border areas who were forced to leave their homes is being worked out.”
