The refugee from Popasnaya recognized her things in the photo of the Russian tank, taking the loot

Alina Korenyuk, who, because of the war, was forced to flee from the city of Popasnaya in the Luhansk region, identified the things that she left at home, in the photo of the Russian tank, taking the loot.

Korenyuk, who left the fascinated at the very beginning of the Russian invasion and later reached the UK, contacted BBC News and said that the photograph was taken on the street only five minutes walk from her house.

The picture, taken on May 26, in the Popas photographer Alexander Ermochenko, was printed by many media, including British. According to Korenyuk, her husband was the first to pay attention to the photo, “he said:“ Do you notice anything strange in this photo? ” And I asked me if I saw the same thing as him, ”she said.

According to Korenyuk, in the photo on the tank’s armor a new boiler is visible, which she bought before the war, as well as a tablecloth from her cottage, new bedding with Disney heroes and a red blanket. Something else is closed with bedding, as the core, TV and other household appliances that remained in her house suggest.

See, according to the interlocutor of BBC News, her family was not surprised. “We reacted like this - they will steal everything that they did not destroy,” she said. We expected that houses in Popasnaya would be looted, we were talked about this many times. ”

• On May 26, Mediazona published data from investigations indicating that the Russian military, three months after the start of hostilities in Ukraine, sent more than 58 tons of parcels from the border cities.
• The fact that the Russian military is probably engaged in looting in occupied Ukrainian territories, began to be declared shortly after the start of the invasion, in particular, citing frames of surveillance cameras standing in the border offices of the SDEK delivery service service. After such publications, the SDEC began to refuse to accept parcels with goods, to which the sender could not provide cash register checks, and turned off the broadcasts from some departments.
• Officially, the authorities of the Russian Federation do not comment on looting reports, but regularly declare that fakes are distributed about the actions of the Russian military.