Russia’s latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property

Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the Mariupol municipal authority in exile, says he knows that in his absence his apartment has been broken into and his possessions stolen. Like many of the other roughly 350,000 Mariupolans from a prewar population of 430,000 that have fled the city, he cannot risk going back to occupied Mariupol to re-register his apartment, as required, in person. He expects that soon someone else will be living there. “It’s a normal story,” he says.