Russia stealing vehicles in occupied territory

 Yahoo News:

Russian occupying forces in eastern and southern Ukraine are stealing cars from locals to replenish their losses in equipment on the frontlines, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Nov. 18.

"The Ukrainian Defense Forces caused significant losses in equipment to the Russian occupying forces. From 20 to 30 vehicles are destroyed every day," the statement says.

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The occupiers decided to make up for their losses by looting residents of the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts. The Kremlin issued decree No. 2059, dated 31.07.2023, stating that all enterprises "nationalized" by the occupiers are obligated to transfer equipment to the all-Russian pseudo-social movement 'People’s Front 'For Russia'' under a donation agreement.

The confiscated equipment includes mopeds, motorcycles, motor scooters, cars, buses, trucks, semi-trailers, tractors for agriculture and forestry, tracked bulldozers, and motor graders.

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These vehicles are rarely on the balance sheet of enterprises, so the occupiers resorted to their withdrawal from garages and private households that the so-called Russian occupation “authorities” had previously listed as "abandoned property."
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This could be considered a war crime.  It also exposes Russia's own lack of resources for its operations in occupied territory.