Russia is preparing to seize more than a thousand homes in the occupied Kherson region
In the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region, Russian authorities are preparing to illegally “nationalize” more than a thousand homes. A residence is deemed “ownerless” if the owners refuse to re-register it under Russian law.
According to the ombudsman, the occupying authorities first force Ukrainians to obtain Russian documents and then require them to re-register their property in accordance with Russian legislation. If this does not happen, the property is declared “ownerless” and confiscated.
According to the Ombudsman’s Office, 151 complaints regarding the illegal “nationalization” of property in the temporarily occupied territories were received during 2025–2026 alone.
In the occupied part of the Kherson region, the Russians are preparing 1,172 residential buildings for so-called “nationalization.” Of these, 1,134 are located in Nizhniye Sirogozy, 31 in Nizhniye Torgai, and another seven in Pershopokrovka. The occupying administration cites the failure to re-register the property in accordance with Russian regulations as the reason.
A similar situation, as Lubinets noted, has arisen in the occupied town of Dniprorudne in the Zaporizhzhia region. There, residents were required to re-register their real estate by July 1, but doing so is virtually impossible due to long lines and limited operating hours at registration offices. In addition, any real estate transactions are blocked for those who have not registered with the occupation “military registration offices,” which creates a risk of forced mobilization.
The Ombudsman’s Office emphasized that Russia is also systematically applying a similar mechanism of illegal appropriation of housing in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea.
“This is a large-scale illegal appropriation of Ukrainian property, which may constitute war crimes. The occupation does not grant Russia any right to the property of our citizens. Ukraine does not recognize documents issued in the temporarily occupied territories, with the exception of those concerning births, deaths, or marriage registrations,” Lubinets noted.
The Ombudsman called on Ukrainians whose property in the temporarily occupied territories has been unlawfully declared “ownerless,” seized, or transferred to other individuals, to report such cases to the Office of the Commissioner in order to document human rights violations and preserve evidence of possible war crimes.
This was reported by Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights.
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