Luhansk region faces disruption of sowing campaign as Russian forces seize fuel from local farmers
Illustrative photo: Russian occupiers on tanks (Getty Images)
Russian forces in temporarily occupied Luhansk have moved to openly looting the agricultural sector, according to Luhansk Military Administration head Oleksii Kharchenko.
According to the official, the occupation authorities have issued an order that effectively jeopardizes the upcoming sowing campaign and threatens the region with a massive food shortage.
In the so-called LPR, farmers and company managers were forced to hand over at least 30% of their diesel fuel reserves. The occupation administration justifies this by citing a shortage of diesel in Russian army units operating in Luhansk. In effect, farmers and entrepreneurs are being forced to finance the war against their own country at their own expense.
The consequences of this decision could be catastrophic:
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Confiscating a third of the fuel right before fieldwork will paralyze agricultural machinery.
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Without sowing, Luhansk will have no harvest, which under occupation conditions is a direct path to humanitarian collapse.
Complete isolation in Lutuhyne: public transport has disappeared. While diesel is taken for tanks, civilian infrastructure is collapsing. Residents of Lutuhyne are left without bus service, as the occupiers failed to secure transport services, and no local entrepreneur agreed to participate in the tenders. Now, people in villages are cut off from towns. Travel is possible only by personal car (if the occupiers have not yet seized fuel) or by taxi, the prices of which have become unaffordable for most.
The actions of the occupiers show a critical state of their logistics and complete disregard for the fate of people under occupation.
Previously, Ukraine’s military intelligence identified a Russian unit that had received orders to kill civilians near Pokrovsk. Recently, a Russian agent near Kyiv who was directing fire in Donetsk was detained.
