Occupants have denied chronically ill patients in the region free medications without a Russian passport, according to Zheltaya Lenta.

The Russian authorities have stripped people living with HIV/AIDS, diabetes, bronchial asthma, and even cancer of their medicine benefits in temporarily occupied territories.

This information was reported by the resistance movement Yellow Ribbon, citing participants from the movement in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region.

“An activist from the Yellow Ribbon movement in Enerhodar reports that starting from January this year, the occupation administration will not provide any medical assistance to these individuals until they obtain Russian citizenship. According to the 'legislative acts' of the occupation administrations, pensioners and even Heroes of the Soviet Union have also lost the ability to receive preferential medical assistance without Russian citizenship,” the message states.

The movement has urged citizens to report the occupiers' crimes in the chat-bot “Ochi”.

Recently, the head of the department for citizens' rights in temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of the department for monitoring compliance with the rights of citizens affected by armed aggression against Ukraine, at the Office of the Ombudsman, Tatyana Gorodenska shared where to turn regarding the imposed Russian passports.

Earlier, ZMINA reported that the Russian Federation is preparing for mass violations of the rights of Ukrainians in occupation who do not receive a Russian passport by April 30.

On January 1, 2025, a decree issued by Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the end of 2024, titled “On Temporary Measures for Regulating the Legal Status of Certain Categories of Foreigners and Stateless Persons in the Russian Federation in Connection with the Implementation of the Deportation Regime,” came into effect, which contains threats to Ukrainian citizens in temporarily occupied territories (TOT).

Previously, the Crimean Human Rights Group called on Crimeans to send documents and other evidence confirming the commission of crimes in occupied Crimea.

Recently, the ZMINA Human Rights Center presented a guide “How Victims in Ukraine Can Be Heard by the International Criminal Court (ICC).” Earlier, the center developed an online course on the Prometeus platform “Chameleon. Avoiding Captivity and the Psychology of Survival in Captivity.”

Recently, ZMINA reported that for Ukrainians living in temporarily occupied territories, the electronic service “You are in Ukraine” has been launched: it features safety and resistance instructions and provides access to quality VPN and secure browsing.