The pilot project on remote inspection of destroyed housing in the TOT is effective and needs to be scaled up. This was stated during a regular meeting on the implementation of housing rights of certain categories of IDPs chaired by Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories.

Until recently, it was only possible to inspect housing destroyed as a result of hostilities and register it in the State Real Estate Register (for the purpose of paying compensation to owners) in government-controlled areas.

However, a pilot project has recently been launched to confirm the destruction of housing in the TOT using remote sensing information products - aerial photography. The project started in Melitopol.

The meeting participants were briefed on the first results of its implementation.

During the project implementation period, the commission at the Melitopol City Council could review and register 4 applications for compensation for destroyed real estate in the State Register. Housing certificates have already been issued for two of them to pay compensation to the owners.

The participants agreed that the remote sensing tool makes it possible to establish the fact of destruction of certain categories of real estate and provide compensation to their owners.

"This project really works. It needs to be scaled up and extended to other temporarily occupied territories where Ukrainians have destroyed housing. I am talking primarily about Mariupol. It is there that russians are now demolishing destroyed houses and building new ones in their place. Therefore, it is very important to record the destruction caused by the enemy to our cities in time and not to allow them to conceal these crimes," said Iryna Vereshchuk.