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Russia is trying to auction off Zelenskyy's apartment in Crimea
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https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-putin-zelenskyy-apartment-auction-crimea-ukraine-war-2023-9
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian officials occupying Crimea said earlier this year they had nationalized 500 properties in the region.
Now, Russian-installed officials in Crimea — placed there by Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 — say they will soon auction off about 100 of these properties, Reuters reported.
Authorities have already sold a handful of properties worth a combined $8.51 million, said Vladimir Konstantinov, speaker of the Crimean parliament, according to Reuters.
Russian officials first announced in May they would sell Zelenskyy’s Crimea apartment and use the proceeds to fund their war in Ukraine, Insider previously reported.
The penthouse apartment, located in a resort town on the Black Sea, is thought to be worth about $800,000.
The announcement of the planned auction comes after Ukrainian forces launched a missile strike against a Russian naval shipyard in Crimea on Wednesday morning, Insider previously reported.
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