INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Locals displaced by fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Kursk area have grown progressively vocal about federal government
failures to ensure their security and provide guaranteed compensation for destroyed residential or commercial property, with a group of
people from one town near the continuous clashes calling on President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.We ask you to end
this cursed war, which has claimed the lives of many innocent people, said an elderly man reading out a collective letter from locals of
Olgovka dealt with to Putin
Weve been left homeless Weve been living in hell over the previous three months.The man, filmed along with dozens of other homeowners from
Olgovka in a video posted online, likened the scenario in the war-torn village to scenes from a horror film.Residents of other border towns
and towns in the Kursk region have likewise described the grinding dispute as cursed in different video appeals to the Russian president
Authorities in Moscow, which have banned calling the major intrusion of Ukraine a war, formally describe the dispute as a special military
operation.We typically speak with people words like Thank God, were still alive, the elderly guy in the video of Olgovka residents said
But not everyone made it through
A few of our next-door neighbors were eliminated
Some are missing since an evacuation order was never ever given.We desire our children to reside in peace, not to continuously hear air raid
sirens, the man continued
Hear us, the citizens of border regions, and act
Were required to sustain all this not by our own will.The independent investigative news outlet Agentstvoreported that displaced Kursk area
residents have actually submitted almost 40 separate video addresses to Putin on the social media website VKontakte since early November.In
their video appeals to Putin, displaced homeowners have actually stated local officials informed them that work to repair their homes would
take up to five years.Last week, displaced citizens from the Sudzhansky and the Bolshesoldatsky districts staged demonstrations in the local
capital of Kursk, accusing regional authorities of failing to compensate them for damaged residential or commercial property or to offer
them with appropriate temporary accommodation.Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnov has since sacked two district heads, although regional
authorities accused the displaced locals of holding unauthorized rallies.More than 150,000 people living in Kursk area towns and towns near
the border with Ukraine have been forced to evacuate their homes after Kyiv released a surprise incursion on Aug
The displaced locals of Olgovka and other towns stated they evacuated themselves with no help from the authorities.Both the scale of the
evacuations and the cross-border battling has not been seen in Russia considering that World War II, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet
Russian authorities have repeatedly conjured up historic parallels with that conflict and Moscows current war versus Ukraine.
