The appeal was reported by The Insider, TV Rain and The Moscow Times. The authors say their homes were destroyed in the war or are located in closed settlements, that they have not received certificates to replace lost apartments and houses, and that they are not being paid benefits.
"Consequently, after the closure of the temporary accommodation centers, without temporary registration we will have nowhere to live, and we will be deprived of the opportunity to work on the territory of the Russian Federation," the displaced people said. Without registration, they will be left without medical care and pensions, and their children will not be able to enroll in educational institutions. They asked Putin to help them "be full-fledged citizens of the Russian Federation."
Nearly 250 people live in the Tula region's temporary accommodation centers. Resolution No. 264 of the Tula region government, dated May 19, obliges most of them to move out starting October 15. The right to stay will be retained by people with disabilities in groups I and II together with their relatives, families with disabled children, and orphans. Those who arrived in the region after August 20 were allowed to live in the center for up to six months.
Initially, the people were to be evicted on September 1, but the deadline was postponed twice. Local authorities explained their decision by a lack of money in the regional budget. Those who appealed wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office, but it has so far remained unanswered.
For refugees from the Kharkiv region, the situation is complicated by the absence of a Russian registration: the loss of temporary registration deprives them of the ability to work, receive medical care, insurance, child payments and pensions.
This is not the first such appeal from the Tula region — refugees recorded a similar one in June. At that time it was reported that the temporary accommodation centers housed people from Bakhmut, Soledar, Chasiv Yar, Siversk, Lyman, Sloviansk, Rubizhne, Kupiansk, Izium, Vovchansk, Svatove, Kreminna and Pokrovsk.
In March, about 50 displaced people from the border area held a spontaneous rally in Kursk and recorded a video appeal to Governor Alexander Khinshtein. They demanded the return of monthly payments of 65,000 rubles, canceled from January 1, and the enshrining in law of a special status for those affected by hostilities. According to Kursk authorities, at that time only about 15,000 families had received housing certificates, while tens of thousands of people still live in temporary accommodation centers or rent housing.