The mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov informed on March 26, 2023, that Russian troops strengthen filtering measures in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region (south of Ukraine).
Source: The mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov
“Russian troops are trying to find those people who resist, and today more than 500 Melitopol civilians are in the torture chambers of Russians,” said the mayor of Melitopol.
The mayor added that after each explosion, Russian soldiers intensify filtering measures and this filtering is extremely brutal.
“These are searches, imprisonment, torture, abuse,” noted Ivan Fedorov.
According to Ivan Fedorov, the number of Russian troops is increasing, they have entered Melitopol and Vesele. Russian soldiers forbid people to leave their homes, impose curfews so that people do not see the movement of Russian military equipment and cannot pass this information on to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier it was reported that Russians in the occupied territories of Ukraine are preparing to carry out mass forced passporting.
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