Melitopol

Russians arrested Yevhen Ilchenko for running a Telegram channel about occupied Melitopol. He was tortured and forced to slave labor, including digging trenches for the Russian military.

The occupation authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine are conducting raids to identify “ownerless” housing. The owners are asked to provide documents by August 16, otherwise the property will be confiscated and may be transferred to Russian migrants.

Dmytro Lykhoviy, a spokesman for the Tavria unit, said there are no signs of an offensive group of Russians forming in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to fight back in case of an offensive.

Russian invaders in occupied Melitopol are increasing property pressure on residents, organizing raids and filtration to identify "ownerless property," seize it and dispose of it at their discretion for military or guest workers to move in or sell.

25 traitors from the occupied Zaporizhia region voluntarily joined the ranks of the Russian police and received Russian passports, they face up to 15 years in prison for cooperation.

The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court granted the claim of the Ministry of justice to recover assets worth more than UAH 120 million from collaborator Yevhen Balytsky, including planes, apartments, cars and companies in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhia region.

Russian troops have concentrated their main efforts on Kupyansk and Pokrovsky directions, while, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 22 military clashes occurred in Kupyansk and 12 military clashes continue in Pokrovsky direction, while six more attacks were repelled.

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.