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EHRG
The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how, since 2014 - and especially following the full-scale invasion in 2022 - the Russian Federation has transformed industrial, transport, and resource facilities in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions into components of its own military-industrial complex.
The study documents the repurposing of civilian enterprises for wartime needs, the dismantling and removal of equipment, the use of mines and underground infrastructure as ammunition depots and command posts, as well as the integration of the Azov Sea ports into Russia’s military logistics. Special attention is given to forced labor, repressive practices against the local population, environmental consequences, and long-term threats to regional and European security.
The authors emphasize that the militarization of industry in the occupied territories is not only an internal Ukrainian issue but also part of Russia’s strategy of conducting a protracted war and expanding military threats to the Black Sea region, the EU, and NATO.
Organizers:
Eastern Human Rights Group, Institute for Strategic Studies and Security, with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Office in Ukraine (Kyiv).
Experts:
Maksym Butchenko – Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security, journalist, writer
Ivan Stupak – former SBU officer
Petro Oleshchuk – political scientist, Doctor of Political Science
Ivan Us – Candidate of Economic Sciences
Vladyslava Shpota – journalist, “Tribune”
Yuliia Horbova – Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Sociological Research at KNEU named after V. Hetman, analyst at the research company "Active Group"
Liza Denisova – political scientist, expert at the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security
Viktor Hudyma – expert at the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security, lawyer
Viktoriia Voynarovska – lawyer, civil activist
Moderator:
Vira Yastrebova – Director of the Eastern Human Rights Group
