Occupiers in Donbas fight against signboards, ignoring humanitarian catastrophe - CNS
Kyiv • UNN
In occupied Donbas, the occupiers are focused on changing signboards, banning Ukrainian and English languages, while the region suffers from a humanitarian catastrophe. Local residents face a lack of water, medicine, and problems with garbage.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas, the occupiers are fighting against signboards, not against a humanitarian catastrophe. This was reported by the Center for National Resistance (CNR), informs UNN.
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It is noted that in the temporarily occupied Donbas there is a humanitarian disaster: water is supplied once every three days for several hours, there are not enough medicines, garbage is not removed. But instead of solving these problems, the occupiers are changing signs.
From September 2025, the so-called "my business center" offers entrepreneurs "help" in replacing Ukrainian and English-language signs. And from March 1, 2026, a new Russian law officially prohibits "non-normative" names. They prohibit the Ukrainian language, Anglicisms, even foreign brands
They add that while locals survive without basic services, Russians are engaged in "language protection."
Recall
In occupied Makiivka and Donetsk, water is supplied according to a schedule - only 3 hours once every 3 days. Curators from the Russian Federation recognized the problem, but it seems that its solution has not been agreed upon.