Screenshot from Mariupol residents video address to Russian top leadership

The head of the Donetsk “republic” Denis Pushilin leased three plots of land in the centre of occupied Mariupol with a total area of 22,128 m². 0629 published the respective documents. Specialised Developer Stroitelnoie Upravlenie – 2007 LLC will build apartment buildings on the leased plots.

The developer, which was registered in Mariupol in June 2023, is already building the Leningradsky Kvartal residential complex in the city. This residential complex is located next to the plots that Pushilin leased to Stroitelnoie Upravlenie – 2007 LLC on 24 October. Housing in the Leningradsky Kvartal is for sale, with a 3-room apartment of 80 m² costing about RUB 10 million, 0629 noted.

The journalists stressed that compensatory housing for those who lost their homes due to the fighting in 2022 has not been built in Mariupol recently. On 25 October and 28 October, the legitimate city council of Mariupol published a video appeal from the city’s residents to Russia’s top leadership complaining about this.

The city council noted that dozens of destroyed and demolished houses in Mariupol were being replaced with apartments for sale instead of compensatory housing. At the same time, the occupation administration renames the streets where such houses stood, so the victims have documents for housing at addresses that also no longer exist.

According to the Mariupol City Council, more than 460 houses have been dismantled in Mariupol since 2022.

Oleh Tsarev, a former pro-Russian member of the Verkhovna Rada who now lives in occupied Crimea and calls himself a blogger, shared a similar story recently. A resident of Mariupol, whose house was also destroyed, turned to Tsarev for help.

According to her story, which Tsarev conveyed, her house was demolished and three new ones were built in its place, but all the apartments were intended for sale, although the woman had documented grounds to receive housing as compensation for the destroyed one. At the same time, according to Tsarev, the numbering of the houses was changed, and the address of the woman’s house was removed from local databases. So when she decided to start a business, it turned out that she also could not register her own company because her place of registration did not exist in Mariupol.