The BBC published new evidence of looting and the death of civilians in Korenevo, Kursk region, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not enter

The BBC Russian service showed new evidence of looting in the urban village of Korenevo in the Kursk region.

The Ukrainian army was unable to enter this village in August - units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces occupied only neighboring Olgovka. Most of the residents of Korenevo left, and those who stayed or returned now live without water, electricity and gas, the BBC notes. Dozens of people have already reported incidents of looting in populated areas.

Tamara Skrinnikova, who owned a cellular communication store in Korenevo, came home with her husband Oleg at the end of September. The couple told the BBC that they saw their neighbors' houses destroyed and burnt out, and in their own house the windows and door were broken, the walls in the kitchen were stained with ketchup, the oven and dishwasher were broken.

The Skrinnikovs said that hunting rifles and knives, binoculars for hunting, a welding machine, a laptop, a TV and a vacuum cleaner were missing from their safe, and a Lada was stolen from the garage. The couple found Russian Army shampoo in the bathroom. Tamara added that the door to her store was shot through, telephones and other equipment put up for sale there were missing from the cabinets. She sent photographs of the looted store to journalists.

“There are civilians, military and visiting looters! [We bought the military] everything from socks and underpants to quadcopters and quad bikes, and in gratitude we received looted houses,” an anonymous employee of the Korenev hospital wrote to the BBC.

“Wild animals, corpses of civilians on the streets. There is no water, no light, no food. [Food] is only what the soldiers bring or from the garden,” Russian serviceman Platon Mamatov, whose unit was in Korenevo in August and September, described to journalists what was happening in the village.

On August 17, Mamatov took a video from a reconnaissance drone showing a dead cyclist lying on the highway. Another footage shows the bodies of three more dead, only one of them wearing military uniform. The New York Times wrote about these images on October 27 . The newspaper emphasized that there were battles in the area and shooting was carried out in both directions, so it is impossible to determine the cause of death in the video.

The BBC geolocated the full video with the bodies (at least six dead on it) - it was filmed on the Korenevo-Snagost highway, not far from the intersection with Bazarnaya Street.

Entrepreneur Maria Skrob was able to identify in the video the car of her uncle, 53-year-old Sergei Skrob, as well as the bodies and car of her neighbors, 70-year-old Galina and Vladimir Konoplin. The NYT, which obtained satellite images of civilian deaths, claimed that the victims appeared between August 10 and 14. It was on these dates that Maria’s uncle left the village of Snagost towards Korenevo, she told the BBC. Skorb's parents and 90-year-old grandmother were found dead under the rubble of a house in the village of Krasnooktyabrskoye, Korenevsky district - on September 13, she was able to go there and identify their bodies.

In September, the telegram channel “Spy Dossier” published an appeal from Korenevo residents to Vladimir Putin. It spoke of more than 20 stores looted by “men in military uniform.” The authors of the letter indicated that “there have not been UAF military personnel in the village for a day.” Among those who signed the appeal were the Skrinnikovs.

“Many houses and other buildings were smashed and burned, and those that remained intact were almost all looted. <…> People personally saw how men in military uniform opened houses, shot dogs (in the case where there were dogs in the yard and were not allowed into the yard, they entered houses, shops, pharmacies, warehouses and took out and took out property,” - the letter said. Residents of the village contacted law enforcement agencies and the military investigative department, but received no response.

In October, “Ash Kursk” published a video of the owner of the auto parts and wallpaper store “AvtoKorenevo” with the consequences of a robbery by looters. In the video, the man said that the store had “50 thousand” left in goods out of “almost nine million in spare parts.”

A few days earlier, Governor Alexey Smirnov wrote that in Korenevo, where about five thousand people lived before the Ukrainian Armed Forces invasion, “the difficult situation remains, and residents are not yet recommended to return.” “Military police officers also check information about looters, but most often this turns out to be an information dump on the part of the enemy intelligence services,” the head of the region said at the same time.

The publication “That’s So” confirmed the identities of the authors of the comments under Smirnov’s post. They wrote that looters were opening houses in Korenevo “in the fifth round,” despite the new locks. One woman posted a photo of a broken door with “51 p. occupied” written on it in white paint. “Like this” suggests that this inscription was left by soldiers of the 51st Guards Parachute Regiment of the Airborne Forces, participating in battles in the Kursk region.

The 44-year-old administrator of Pyaterochka, Elena Poryvaeva, also complained to the governor about the looting. The street where she lived was heavily damaged by the war. From her house, “all that remains is the foundation and fragments of walls made of gray brick, only an extension has survived - a living kitchen nearby,” adds the BBC. Poryvaeva’s brother’s wife sent her a video from the village - chairs, a table, two freezers, a refrigerator were taken out of the kitchen and the hood there was broken.

Serviceman Platon Mamatov told the publication that his unit “didn’t take anything,” but added that the military “on the front line are in the situation they are in - it is not always possible to supply themselves with food, so in principle they could “Then take it.” Now, according to local residents and volunteers, in addition to residential buildings, a hospital and shops, a school, a market and a fire station have been destroyed in Korenevo, and unexploded shells lie in the gardens and on the streets.