During the eight months that Russian troops occupied the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, residents claim they were forced by the military To newborns as Russian citizens, under threat of denial of diapers and food for the babies, so with witnesses were interviewed by the Portal news agency.
With the war, the purchasing power of parents of Ukrainian children was radically reduced, which affected the purchase of children’s basic groceries. Therefore, many gave in to the pressure and accepted the Russian proposal. The registration certificate must be presented when the products are picked up.
In addition, staff at Kherson City Clinical Hospital, the only hospital available in the region, are said to have received instructions from the military To all children with Russian citizenship. Until then, hospitals only offered a basic record, leaving registration responsibility to the registry office.
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Leonid Remyga, the facility’s chief physician, did not follow the instructions and continued to apply Ukrainian laws until he was removed from work, according to Portal. He was allegedly detained and interrogated by the Russian Secret Service (FSB), responsible for imposing norms in the captured areas, and released a day after the city was recaptured by Ukrainians in November.
Officials who managed to get around the rules waited for Kherson to be retaken To their children. Before the war, according to Remyga, about 1,200 babies were born in the hospital, except for 489. The suspicion is that pregnant women left for nonRussian occupied territories or even abroad. Since the Russian military compiled the documentation, it is not possible to know how many newborns with the wrong citizenship were affected.
Even with Ukraine’s recapture of territory in November, Kherson is being labeled a ghost town as many residents have not returned to their homes due to the bombings in the Dnipro River.