# How Russia seizes homes in occupied Ukraine

https://mins.news/en/video/16470

- BBC News, 2026-08-07 19:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7E1i3kQuKM

> Russia is systematically taking tens of thousands of homes in four Ukrainian regions it has illegally annexed: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. BBC-reviewed documents indicate that 34,000 properties have already been seized or marked for confiscation. The homes are intended for people holding Russian passports. BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson explains how the Kremlin has used the policy as part of a strategy of “Russification” in occupied Ukraine. The practice was formalised through a law signed by Vla…

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