Russia should create a legal basis for confiscating the property of Ukrainian citizens in Russia, the so-called people’s republics of eastern Ukraine and other occupied territories of Ukraine, a senior Russian official said on Monday, Interfax quoted a senior Russian official as saying.
“A clear legal framework is needed for seizing foreign property, especially Ukrainian property, in Russia and in the liberated territories of Ukraine. This issue should be discussed in detail with the government in the fall,” said Andriy Klishas, head of the committee on constitutional legislation of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Moscow parliament.
Klishas’ comments on his Telegram channel on Monday came after the Moscow government drafted a bill in late July that would allow Ukrainians’ homes in occupied territories to be nationalized if they are annexed by Russia.
The document, developed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia under the pretext of solving the problem of providing housing for low-income citizens, provides that local authorities of the federal districts of Russia will be able to receive “unclaimed housing” in order to provide it to other persons. People.
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This would practically mean that the occupying power, by a simple decision of a civil servant, would be able to confiscate the homes of Ukrainians who fled the war zone and hand them over to citizens of Russia.
Prime Minister Mykhailo Mishustin has already expressed his support for the project, saying that “there are obligations to the military and the disabled. It will be easier to do this by the decision of the heads of subjects of the Russian Federation.”
The head of the government established by the Russians in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhia region in southern Ukraine officially announced on Monday the holding of a referendum on joining Russia, without specifying its date yet.
Previously, pro-Russian authorities in all occupied territories, as well as separatists in two separatist regions in the east of Ukraine, talked about holding such referendums, but did not make an official statement on this matter.
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