An infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia has been hit by enemy fire, resulting in one person being wounded, the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration said.
The 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade captured 11 Russian soldiers in the Zaporizhzhia sector, including Dagestanis and former prisoners of war.
During the shelling of Mala Tokmachka village in Zaporizhzhia region by russian troops, a 66-year-old man was killed and several houses were damaged.
Russia is building new fortifications between Tokmak and Melitopol and between Tokmak and Berdiansk in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine.
As a result of artillery shelling by Russian troops at night, one man was wounded in Gulyaypol, Zaporizhzhia region, and another law enforcement officer was wounded in Poltava.
Russians in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region are demonstrating new methods of terror. In particular, checking phones for Ukrainian numbers, interrogating and taking "disloyal" people to the occupiers in an unknown direction.
Two civilians were wounded in Zaporizhzhya region as a result of 156 Russian attacks on the region over the past day.
Russian invaders plan to open the first "Center for Junior Army Training" in occupied Melitopol to teach children military skills.
russian occupants in Zaporizhzhia region are forcing farmers to sell grain and agricultural products to a state-owned operator at below-market prices and delaying payments for up to six months.
President Zelensky appointed Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov as the new head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, replacing Yuriy Malashko, who passed on his achievements to the new team.
President Zelensky introduced Ivan Fedorov, the newly appointed head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, during a meeting to discuss security and the return of the occupied territories.
The mayor of Melitopol said that the Russian occupiers are preparing to implement a Soviet-era plan called "Zaporizhzhia Virgin Lands" to transport residents from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to settle in the occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia region in order to change the ethnic composition of the population and suppress Ukrainian resistance.
The russians who occupied Melitopol are building fences along the roads and installing cameras at intersections to monitor residents around the clock.
Explosions were heard in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine.
Over the past two years of Russian occupation, Melitopol's population has grown to about 100,000 people due to an influx of Russian military, labor migrants, and other immigrants, although more than half of the original 150,000 residents have left. Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that Russia is trying to "eradicate Ukrainians" in the city and "change the gene pool of the nation.
The russian federation is turning the occupied territories into ghettos where it is dangerous for Ukrainians to return home. Ivan Fedorov noted that russia allows only 10% of Ukrainians who are trying to visit relatives to pass through, while the property of the remaining 90% is promptly confiscated.
The Russians created a unit in Zaporizhzhia similar to Smersh to identify resistance and "deal with" it. They have also started brainwashing children by creating a teenage unit called "Warrior" that spreads Russian propaganda.
