Starvation as a Weapon. Starvation as a Weapon Oleshky. russian military. war in Ukraine

On September 20, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha called on the international community to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe in the occupied part of the Kherson region and to assist in organizing evacuation corridors. The actions of the russian military have led to a humanitarian disaster in the temporarily occupied territories, specifically in the towns of Oleshky, Hola Prystan, Stara Zburivka, and Nova Zburivka. Please share this material.

The russian occupiers are deliberately creating conditions incompatible with life, in gross violation of international humanitarian law: https://ua.krymr.com/a/news-rosiyski-viysʹkovi-zabyrayut-kharchi-oleshky/33758343.html The Russian military is blocking evacuations and using local Ukrainian residents as human shields. 
About 2,000 civilians, including 50 children, remain in the town of Oleshky. Before the full-scale war, the town's population exceeded 24,000. Other settlements in the occupied part of the Kherson region are also under a de facto blockade: supplies of food, medicines, and other essential goods are blocked by the russian military. Critical infrastructure has been destroyed, and power and gas supplies are absent. The situation is deteriorating as winter and cold weather approach.  
The kremlin has repeatedly used starvation as an instrument of war, genocide, and blackmail against the international community. The artificially engineered Holodomor genocide killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932–1933. Today, putin's russia is starving Ukrainians in the Kherson region and provoking the threat of hunger in other parts of the world by blocking the grain corridor and attacking global food security.   
The russians have artificially created conditions aimed at destroying Ukrainians in the occupied territories. According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, such actions by the occupiers must be qualified as an act of genocide.   
The International Committee of the Red Cross expressed its readiness to help organize humanitarian corridors, but the russians are blocking these initiatives. Ukraine will raise the issue of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Kherson region and the need for evacuation at the UN level. Ukraine calls on international partners for coordinated action to create evacuation corridors to save lives. Russianfake.com asks you to spread information about Oleshky. Help save these destitute people.
"Witnesses" Instead of the Truth: russia Released a Film to Rewrite the History of the Destruction of the Drama Theater in Mariupol.  
In a pseudo-documentary film, the occupiers push their own version of the events of spring 2022, denying russia's responsibility for one of the most famous tragedies of the war. For the filming, the russians used the stage of the rebuilt theater—the exact same place beneath which the bodies of dead Mariupol residents remained after the airstrike.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, appealed to the UN, the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International, UNESCO, the European Parliament, and PACE, calling for an assessment of the Russian attempt to falsify the circumstances of the tragedy.
Fake: Ukraine is Provoking Chaos in the Global Food Market with Attacks on Ships Carrying Agricultural Products. 
This was stated by kremlin spokesperson maria zakharova. In reality, it is russia that has systematically attacked Ukrainian ports, grain infrastructure, and civilian shipping since 2022, creating risks for food exports. On August 13, russia attacked the port of Izmail once again, damaging the infrastructure of one of the key routes for Ukrainian agricultural exports.
The UN previously emphasized that it was the russian blockade of Ukrainian ports that created serious risks to global food security. The Black Sea Grain Initiative was created in 2022 specifically to resolve this issue. According to Reuters, in the first half of August 2026, Ukrainian grain exports dropped by 75% year-on-year amid russian attacks on ports and shipping. Thus, the kremlin is simply shifting responsibility for the consequences of its own attacks onto Ukraine, trying to frame the victim of aggression as the culprit behind the problems in the global food market.
The Insider Published Testimony of Ukrainian POWs Who Survived russian Captivity.  
They recount systematic beatings, electrocution torture, mock executions, humiliation, and complete isolation from the outside world: https://theins.ru/confession/294309. "Over 95% of Ukrainian prisoners in russia were subjected to torture," stated Claudia Fuentes-Julio, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at the UN: https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/4152906-u-rosii-zaznali-katuvan-ponad-95-ukrainskih-polonenih-oon.html 
The UN documented 129 cases of executions of Ukrainian POWs during the early stages of their captivity. Another 48 prisoners died due to torture, lack of medical care, or inhumane detention conditions. More than half of those interviewed reported sexual violence. Torture methods included severe beatings, electric shocks, set-upon dogs, and mock executions. The UN stressed that cases of ill-treatment were also recorded among russian POWs in Ukraine, but the scale of the violations is "fundamentally different".
The Occupation Authorities of the Donetsk Region Turn a Blind Eye to the Activities of So-Called "Modeling Agencies" Running Highly Dubious Schemes.
Activists of the "Yellow Ribbon" movement report that a recruitment network for girls, including minors, operates in Donetsk under the guise of modeling schools. Agencies such as Lotus Model Agency collect detailed questionnaires, build contact databases, and promise careers and "new opportunities" under the cover of castings and "beauty pageants".
In reality, filming and business trips to rostov or krasnodar often imply something completely different. According to activists, during such trips, the girls' documents are confiscated, and the living conditions differ significantly from what was promised. The presence of branches in russian cities allows these relocations to be organized under the guise of modeling activities.
Reports regarding these criminal acts have been repeatedly submitted to the occupation police, but they either disappear or are simply left without any response.
A russian Studio Created a Game About the Assault on the Ukrainian Town of Hostomel.  
A page for the video game Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes, created by the russian studio Cats Who Play, appeared on the Steam digital store. The release was scheduled for March 24, 2026. The project is dedicated to the events at the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, specifically the battles for the airfield in Hostomel.
According to the description, the single-player campaign consists of six missions—ranging from the landing of russian paratroopers at the airport to the retreat at the end of March 2022.
In the presentation, the developers claim that video games can be "a more effective way of conveying information than analytical articles or news". At the same time, they describe the events of the first days of the invasion as a "brilliant russian airborne assault" on the outskirts of Kyiv.
For the russian market, they plan to release the game under a different title—Hostomel Bogatyrs. Following the game's presentation, the Ukrainian gaming community called on platform users to report the project as a tool of russian propaganda and an attempt to justify aggression against Ukraine. Fortunately, Steam listened to the voice of a conscious community and removed the game from the platform.
Based on materials from Spravdi.ua, Stopfake.org
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