In Severodonetsk, the occupiers are forcing local residents to remove garbage instead of public utilities

Sergei Gaidai

A pile of rubbish remains in neighborhoods and on city highways.

Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA, spoke about this.

"Clean Fridays"? Propaganda productions are over - no one cleaned up the garbage in Severodonetsk. The occupying authorities are forcing the population to do this for free every week,” he wrote in a telegram channel.

Gaidai notes that a lot of garbage remains in the neighborhoods and on the roads of the city. According to him, for two and a half months, propaganda TV channels broadcast stories about cleaning up the streets of Severodonetsk.

It seems that they were taking out the garbage that had collected during the months of active hostilities, mutilated cars, soaking up traces of the destruction of buildings. Residents of the city were invited to paid work to clean up the districts of Severodonetsk. Even then they said that no one would pay money for this, and all work was completed immediately after the ROS-TV camera was turned off. The money has run out. Or they were stolen, which is also not far from the truth,” he wrote.

The head of the OVA noted that the occupying authorities call these actions "an action to which "collectives of all enterprises and institutions join, which, like all residents of Severodonetsk, will come out every Friday for cleaning."