Melitopol

The situation in the areas of military operations remains difficult, but is controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, with intense fighting concentrated in the Donetsk region, especially in the Pokrovsky direction, where the enemy made 23 unsuccessful attempts to break through the Ukrainian defense line.

More than 54,000 applications for compensation for damaged housing were satisfied, and more than 6,000 certificates for compensation for destroyed housing were issued under the Ukraine Recovery Program in its first year.

The head of the Zaporizhzhia RMA said that the temporarily occupied territories have been celebrating "Victory Day" for a week, with the elderly and children being most exposed to Kremlin propaganda, which includes school events, propaganda boards and Colorado ribbons.

Russia plans to hold a draft in the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region for the first time since its illegal annexation in September 2022, but the effect is likely to be limited because a large part of the population has left the region.

In Kharkiv, the SBU detained a collaborator who was collecting materials and preparing “information references” glorifying the Russian occupiers and denying their war crimes for Kremlin propagandists' talk shows on Russian TV channels.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree establishing several rural military administrations in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine.

kremlin collaborators are misusing budget funds in the occupied territories, including a former university employee who embezzled money through her daughter-in-law.

Russian occupants seize Ukrainian property in the occupied territories and declare it ownerless under Russian law: since the beginning of April, 60 apartments and houses have already been seized in Melitopol.

An enemy rocket attack damaged the Melitopol "Same Here" aid center in Zaporizhzhia, which provided assistance to thousands of IDPs who fled the temporarily occupied territories.

Ukrainian volunteer Margarita Kharenko from Melitopol was sentenced by the russian occupation authorities to 20 years in prison on charges of "extremism and terrorism".

The occupying Russian authorities are intensifying forced passportization in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region, setting July 1 as the deadline for obtaining a Russian passport.

After Putin's fake "elections," the Russian occupiers plan to forcibly conscript the maximum number of residents of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region into the Russian armed forces. To this end, filtration measures are being intensified in Tokmak, Berdiansk, Melitopol and other TOT settlements.

Explosions occurred simultaneously in the occupied cities of Berdiansk, Melitopol and Mariupol in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

A military depot with ammunition of the Russian occupiers was destroyed near Melitopol.

In Melitopol, the Main Directorate of Ukrainian Intelligence and the local resistance movement conducted a successful joint special operation that resulted in the destruction of about 20 Russian occupiers, two KAMAZ trucks and a UAZ Patriot.

On Saturday, March 23, explosions occurred in occupied Mariupol, Zaporizhzhia region, the loudest of which were heard in the Kalmius district.

Ex-Minister dmitry tabachnik received 15 years in prison in absentia. Another yanukovych-era official, dmytro vorona, received 12 years. Both were convicted of high treason, complicity with the aggressor state and violation of wartime laws, while their assets worth more than UAH 200 million were confiscated.

The Rada adopted a draft resolution that provides for the transfer of powers of the Zaporozhye Regional Council to the Zaporozhye regional military administration, the head of the Zov - Ivan Fedorov.

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that it is too early to talk about exchanging the Russian village of Tiotkino for occupied Melitopol, as Russian volunteers are not going to stop their actions in the near future.

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.

Enemy air defense was operating in the Mariupol district of Donetsk region.

A warehouse with occupants' ammunition exploded in Melitopol, and a loud explosion was heard near the Russian military base in Tokmak.

In Melitopol, a man was shot dead and three local residents were abducted, and another man in Enerhodar was convicted for his poem in the occupied Ukrainian territories.

Ukraine may be ahead in UAV development, as prototypes are being actively tested on the battlefield, gaining valuable data that can be shared with partners.

russian occupation forces in Melitopol are using drones and recording of telephone conversations to increase pressure on local residents and control their movements through video surveillance and fences.

russia intensifies repressions in the occupied Ukrainian territories, conducting raids, deploying more than 10,000 russian guards to visit homes and engaging "volunteers" to control local residents.

A fake university in occupied Melitopol has started cooperating with a russian youth military organization to prepare children for war.

The head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration said that the Russian occupiers brought hundreds of agitators and organizers from the occupied Crimea and Russia to conduct illegal early voting in the "elections" in Melitopol and Zaporizhzhia region.

About 50 Ukrainians deported by Russian forces made their way to government-controlled territory in Zaporizhzhia region, some of them killed by Russians with shots in the back, while others were forced to walk through minefields.

The European Union will impose sanctions against russians and belarusians involved in the deportation of Ukrainian children to the occupied territories, according to the draft 13th package of sanctions against russia.