Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been repeated reports of looting blamed on Russian soldiers. Now, military personnel are apparently not stopping at the property of their compatriots: videos on social media show Russian soldiers emptying shops and private homes in evacuated areas of Kursk.
Since the counteroffensive in the Russian border region of Kursk, Ukraine claims to have 92 cities under control. Many Russians fled the affected areas and had to leave most of their possessions behind. Russian soldiers are apparently taking advantage of this: reports of looting are increasing.
Video shows looting in mobile phone store
Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko posted a video purportedly showing soldiers from the Chechen special forces unit “Akhmat.” “They break into display cases, take out devices and try to open the door,” the post on the X platform reads.
This video shows the looting in a mobile phone store:
Ukrainian researcher Volodymyr Tretyak responded dryly to the video: “When the Russian army invaded Ukraine, Russians were looting shops. When the Ukrainian army invaded Russia, Russians were still looting shops.”
Presumably a plundered private house is shown here:
Blogger: Russians have ‘problems with military indiscipline’
But the criminals apparently don’t stop at abandoned private homes either. Ukrainian military blogger ‘ChrisO_wiki’ published a video, supposedly recorded by a Russian soldier, showing a tour of a destroyed house. The creator of the clip complains that “the Ministry of Defense” has already been to the house and cleaned it up. “It seems that the Russians have serious problems with military indiscipline,” the Ukrainian blogger concluded.
The phenomenon is not new: Russian soldiers reportedly looted the homes of evacuees shortly before their withdrawal from the region, Ukrainian media reported. 120,000 Russians have already left the Kursk region. The evacuation was described as chaotic by many of those affected, and some had to find their own way to safety.
Source: Krone
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