Destruction Followed by Seizure
René Ammann | 30. June 2024
Although estimates suggest over 90% of the housing blocks in central Mariupol were damaged in the invasion of 2022, per the Economist, the DNR is listing apartments for sale if their owners do not re-register them in person. (Photo of Mariupol in March 2022 by Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, via Wikimedia Commons)
Number of ownerless apartments in Mariupol listed for sale by the statelet Donetsk National Republic, where roughly 350,000 Mariupolans from a pre-war population of 430,000 have fled from the Russian invasion: 514