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In Oleshky people are eating weeds, and bodies of the dead remain unburied for months, — BBC.
The town has effectively been cut off from supplies since May. Residents say they discuss on Telegram which wild plants are edible and how to prepare them. Some eat only once a day. Stores are not operating, and there has been no electricity, gas, or water since the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.
People trying to leave or reach neighboring settlements for food risk their lives. 20 in September a married couple was killed by a drone strike while returning from Radenska with a package of food. Four separate sources confirmed their deaths to the BBC.
According to residents, the occupying authorities do not allow burying people killed by drones, mines, or other violent causes without an autopsy by a Russian doctor. Because of this, some bodies have lain in the streets since December. The BBC corroborated these accounts with photographs obtained from several residents.
A local volunteer keeps a list of the dead and says it already contains about 1200 people. The BBC was unable to independently verify that figure. Meanwhile, the UN confirmed at least 29 killed and 54 injured civilians in Oleshky and Hola Prystan this year.
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