The occupation authorities in Henichesk have obliged entrepreneurs to install the ID MAX system, which is connected to Russian state databases. This facial recognition system allows tracking people, their purchases, and movements.
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russians are turning children into cheap labor and effectively creating labor camps. This is reported by the National Resistance Center.
In Kakhovka and Chaplynka, hospitals are overflowing with wounded Russian soldiers, and local residents are not admitted. To receive help, people are forced to travel to Henichesk, which is a long and difficult journey.
Russian officials are seeking to connect the coastal territories of Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions with a "single water route. " According to Russia's plan, this "route" will cover Mariupol, Prymorsk, Henichesk, but for now, without occupied Crimea.
Russian police are massively pressuring men in the occupied territories, forcing them to sign contracts with the Russian army, using threats of criminal charges. For this, law enforcement officers receive bonuses, which indicates the systemic nature of such actions.
The "Yellow Ribbon" movement presented the 24independence. day platform for congratulating residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine on Independence Day. The website allows sending personal greetings and words of support, uniting Ukrainians.
The "Yellow Ribbon" movement adorned the occupied cities of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson regions, and Crimea with Ukrainian flags. The action took place on August 23, Ukraine's National Flag Day, covering Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zhdanivka, Henichesk, Berdiansk, Mariupol, Simferopol, and Nova Kakhovka.
On the outskirts of Strilkove, Kherson region, a Chevrolet Aveo exploded, carrying three UAV operators from the Russian center "Bars-Sarmat". All three occupiers, including the group leader, were eliminated.
On the day of Russia, residents of the occupied cities of Ukraine showed Russian passports, emphasizing that this is not their choice, but a consequence of the occupation. The action covered the cities of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
In the temporarily occupied Genichesk, the redeployment of Russian reserve forces, including many mobilized from Crimea, was recorded. Occupation officers fear a possible offensive on the right bank of the Kherson region.
In the occupied Kherson region, a Russian court sentenced 58-year-old Khalil Kurtamet to 8 years in prison for “participation in the Crimean Tatar battalion”. He was accused of providing hotels for members of the battalion in 2015.
In the temporarily occupied Genichesk, Russian police conducted a quiz for schoolchildren entitled “Russia is my homeland”. The occupiers use such events to identify “unreliable” families with pro-Ukrainian views.
The Russian occupiers forcibly issue Russian passports to Ukrainian children from the occupied territories during large-scale ceremonies to hide their true intentions and manipulate their minds.
In the temporarily occupied Kherson region, russian troops have set up displays in schools glorifying the russian army despite repressions against the civilian population, forcing children to learn about the "heroism" of the forces responsible for separating them from their parents.
Guerrillas from the ATES movement discovered that Kadyrov's men had occupied a driving school in the village of Novooleksiyivka, Genichesk district, temporarily occupied Kherson region.
The People's Artist of Ukraine was sentenced to 10 years in prison for collaborating with the Russian occupiers in Kherson.
The Kherson Art Museum reports that 100 paintings stolen by the Russian occupiers have been identified, 99 of which are in the occupied Crimea.
Russian troops fired at a polling station in occupied Kakhovka, according to the ATES guerrilla movement. In addition, the occupiers are planning to carry out provocations and terrorist attacks at polling stations in the occupied territories to blame the pro-Ukrainian population.
The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company renamed 23 vessels, replacing their old Soviet names with Ukrainian names associated with cities on the rivers and seas or those under Russian occupation.
The occupation authorities in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, took pension archives to occupied Henichesk for alleged digitization. The archive contained more than 20 thousand pension files.
Ukrainian troops maintain fire control over the M-17 highway through Armyansk, though not absolute.