[Russia] - Russians Buy Up Property in Occupied Mariupol As Counteroffensive Looms

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russians are buying up real estate in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, over a year after a relentless siege by Moscow left it
mostly in ruins, the independent news outlet Bumaga reported.Russian authorities have for months boasted of large-scale reconstruction
civilians were killed and 350,000 fled Mariupol as Russian forces laid siege to the city between late February and May last year.According
Irina, a property buyer from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, told Bumaga.The independent outlet reported that around 100 groups on
of apartments and homes for sale, with the average price of an apartment in the city at just 3 million rubles ($34,000) and 4.8 million
the occupied territory.