⬛️ "The city reeks of death. Stray dogs are feeding on the dead. People are eating dogs."

Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky have gone without food supply since May. Civilians face hunger and drone attacks.

⬛️ "From 26 May until today, no food has been delivered to Oleshky. Not a kilogram of flour, not a kilogram of vegetables — nothing. People are eating 'fat grass' [purslane] that grew in their gardens, boiling it and eating it."

— Nadiya
resident of Oleshky

⬛️ "[Russian soldiers] can sit there hungry themselves, without food. They rob people every day. An elderly woman I know had everything taken from her. She asked them, 'How am I supposed to survive the winter? What are you doing?' They told her to shut up. They openly admit they don't care about people — they came here to make money, that's all."

— Kseniia Arkhipova
resident of Oleshky, volunteer

⬛️ "In the morning — a watery soup without potatoes. In the evening — a few spoonfuls of buckwheat. Supplies are running out rapidly."

— Ester Vrataryova
volunteer, quoting a letter received from Oleshky

⬛️ "If a drone wounds you, you can simply bleed to death in the street and nobody will even know. No one is allowed to retrieve or bury the dead. If someone approaches a body, a drone immediately appears and leaves another corpse nearby. Then the dogs start tearing at them."

— Tetiana
resident of Oleshky

⬛️ "In Oleshky, it's not only impossible to live — it's impossible to die. Bodies are lying in the hospital basement. There has been no electricity for four years, and the morgue has been destroyed for three. The smell of rotting corpses hangs over the hospital and the whole city. [...] There are already known cases of people eating dogs."

— Pavlo Vuiets
journalist in contact with residents of Oleshky

[Source: Ukrainska Pravda, Glavkom, Suspilne]