Mariupol: occupiers start selling stolen humanitarian aid – mayor's adviser

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — MONDAY, 13 JUNE 2022, 12:09 PM

ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO. COLLAGE FROM THE STATE BORDER GUARD SERVICE OF UKRAINE 

The occupiers, together with collaborators, have begun trading in stolen Russian "humanitarian aid".

Source: Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol on Telegram

Quote: "The son of pseudo-mayor Volodymyr Kostiantynovych Ivashchenko, who took on the function of "reshala" (decision-maker) in power, has found a common language with the workers of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. Not without the help of collaborators from the village of Urzuf, Ivan Topuzov and his accomplice and partner Tetiana Butiaieva.

Now, together, they are simply stealing Russian humanitarian aid and then selling it through a network of entrepreneurs... The sale goes through "their" traders, who were warned that in the event of trouble "they will go to the basement" [they will be illegally imprisoned (locked in the basement as punishment) – ed.] .

Serhii Serhiiovych Kosenko, the deputy of the Mariupol district, and Anatolii "Mopsik" Avramov – right-hand-man to Ivashchenko's son and the former head of Urzuf – are also involved in this. A whole criminal group of economic criminals in the heart of the occupation authorities."

Details: According to Andriushchenko, employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to loot and steal from intact houses.

At the same time, Mariupol residents report that, strangely, all Russian emergency workers are paid exclusively in Hryvnia (sometimes even in dollars and euros) and almost never in rubles.

Quote: "It is clear where their hryvnia and currency come from. From the homes and apartments of Mariupol residents. In general, these occupation authorities do not get tired of proving that they are incapable of doing anything but destruction and looting."

Background: Andriushchenko reported that the daily queue for humanitarian aid (actually for food) in the former Metro shopping centre of occupied Mariupol ranges from 1.5 to 2 thousand people.  At the same time, only up to 400 packages are issued per day. In the heat under the sun, people wait in line for 6 hours in vain; many faint.

Meanwhile, the occupiers stated that from July, the so-called "humanitarian aid" will be provided free of charge only to pensioners and people with disabilities.