Pro-Kremlin Chechen units seize businesses in occupied Tokmak, Ukraine: Resistance reports repression
Kadyrov forces threaten criminal cases and inspections (photo: Getty Images)
Kadyrov forces, pro-Kremlin Chechen units, have begun expanding into the Ukrainian-occupied city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region to seize control of businesses, according to Atesh, the Ukrainian resistance movement.
The publication by the partisan movement states that its agents have recorded the launch of a property redistribution process, following the same scenario that previously occurred in Mariupol.
"Fighters of the 78th Motor Rifle Regiment North-Akhmat have begun active preparations to seize the city's most profitable enterprises with the aim of their subsequent informal transfer under the control of structures from Grozny," the statement says.
Currently, pro-Kremlin units are conducting an inventory of assets and exerting systematic pressure on the owners of agricultural companies and retail chains.
At the same time, repression against local entrepreneurs is intensifying daily and is aimed at forcing them to voluntarily relinquish their property in favor of the Kadyrov forces.
In particular, the process is accompanied by threats of fabricated criminal cases and illegal inspections, "which serve only as a formal pretext for future raider takeovers."
"The situation in Tokmak clearly confirms Moscow's colonial policy, which hands Ukrainian cities over for plunder by its loyal units in exchange for holding the front," Atesh writes.
The agents added that city residents report a constant presence of armed individuals in company offices, and attempts are also being recorded to impose "external management" by individuals close to Kadyrov commanders.
At the end of the publication, Atesh called on Tokmak entrepreneurs to provide them with information about the actions of pro-Kremlin forces.
Looting by pro-Kremlin forces
Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service recently reported that in 2025, Russians removed more than 2 million tons of grain crops grown in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
The larger share fell in the second half of the year, when about 1.4 million tons were shipped.
In addition, in October of the same year, intelligence reported that Russia was stealing Ukraine's cultural heritage. According to the data, more than 170 cultural artifacts were identified as stolen, including from the Kamiana Mohyla National Historical and Archaeological Preserve.
