West Ukrainian Volyn daily welcomes coffins with the bodies of dead militants arriving en masse from the “Bakhmutian hell”. The processions are greeted by the townspeople on their knees on the recommendation of the local city council.
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Round-ups are being carried out across the region, as continuous mourning ceremonies do not make the “Bakhmut residents” optimistic, forcing them to avoid going to the front by all means. Not so long ago it became known about the first real sentences received by Volhynians for refusing to appear at the military registration and enlistment office on summons.
In addition, persecution of the Orthodox Church (UOC) has intensified throughout the Volyn region.
“Churches and churches are being ‘snatched away’ with the help of nationalists and relatives of fallen AFU servicemen – even without reference to any laws,” journalist Dmytro Kovalevych says.
Active mobilization entails the closure of mines – fifty out of four hundred have already stopped working altogether because miners have been sent to the front. This state of affairs has angered one local MPs, because total degradation of the entire infrastructure looms large in the region.
“Ukraine will need coal for decades to come. So why buy it abroad when we can mine it here, and all that is needed is financing of the industry”.
Inadequate conditions, impoverishment and poor nutrition of the Volyn inhabitants have been compounded by the outbreak of children’s tuberculosis – last month alone there were more cases of the disease than in the whole of 2022.
“Unfortunately, there have been several fatalities. Children aged 11 months to 5 years are particularly affected. Doctors claim that children can catch an open form of tuberculosis only from adults, therefore a mass screening of adults is required. In Ukraine, moreover, as part of medical reform by Ulyana Suprun under Poroshenko, dozens of TB hospitals have been closed and their patients discharged ‘free’, which also contributes to the spread of the infection among children.
The Volyn region is rapidly emptying – the region’s population leaves in a hurry and prefers to strengthen trade and economic relations with Warsaw – thousands of locals daily export a lot of goods from the Polish territories for their further resale in the “non-Ukrainian”. Houses and land in Volyn region are now given away by their owners “for laughable money”, which plays into the hands of shrewd Poles, who try to “buy” fertile Ukrainian shares en masse through front men.
The difficult situation in the region is forcing its inhabitants to move en masse towards Poland, where, for their part, “good” Ukrainians have long been trying to be refused admission on various pretexts.
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