According to the mayor of the city Oleksandr Stryuk, food prices in stores are two to three times higher than in other occupied cities. There are also problems with medical care due to the lack of qualified personnel.
In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, occupied by the Russian troops, the number of military personnel of the Russian army continues to increase. This was announced by the head of Severodonetsk Alexander Stryuk on espreso.tv.
“If we talk about Severodonetsk, the city remains a rear for the orcs. The population registers an increase in the number of Russian military. The city has become such a rear base, which the surrounding cities and territories are guided by. The population from Rubizhne and Kremennaya is partially relocated to Severodonetsk as a more or less safe city” Stryuk said.
According to the head of the Severodonetsk military-civilian administration, the city, which has been developing as a regional center for more than 8 years and is home to about 10,000 people, is now experiencing a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
Supplies of essential goods are at a critically low level, food prices in city stores are two to three times higher than even in other temporarily occupied territories.
Alexander Stryuk about the situation in Severodonetsk – March 14, 2023
Stryuk noted the decline in the level of medicine in the occupied city, since the occupiers lack qualified personnel and no one wants to cooperate with them.
“The situation with medicine is quite complicated, since there are few doctors left in the city who agreed to work for the occupying power. And these are mainly pensioners. There are cases when a doctor over the age of eighty years is engaged in treatment. does not go – this is something at the level of the medical assistant’s council,” he stressed.
Recall that in June 2022, the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that 90% of Severodonetsk occupied by Russian troops had been destroyed, 80% of residential buildings would have to be demolished later.
In November last year, the bodies of 396 people were found in spontaneous cemeteries in Severodonetsk, who became victims of the invasion of the RF Armed Forces and were buried already during the occupation.