Kherson region
The Russian army from heavy artillery and Gradov is shelling the settlements of the de-occupied part of the Kherson region. On March 14, the Russian army, in particular, fired missiles at the village of Ivanovka, where a civilian infrastructure facility and a private house were damaged.
Kherson is also under fire. On March 13, a man was killed as a result of the shelling of the city.
In the Stanislav community, a cluster munition detonated during sowing work in a field. Wounded local resident. Between Stanislav and Shirokaya Balka, a 63-year-old man exploded with explosives. During field work, he ran into an explosive device that detonated.
In the Kherson region in the village of Tokarovka, Russian troops dropped a grenade that fell onto the road from a drone. At this time, law enforcement officers were driving along the road on a call. The car received mechanical damage. The Russian army attacked from drones the courtyard of one of the medical institutions of Kherson. Vehicles and buildings nearby were damaged.
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The Russians continue to register their occupying bodies in the register of legal entities, at the same time appropriating the premises stolen from Ukrainian entrepreneurs. This time it included “Federal Governmental Institution “The base of material – technical and military supply of the Federal Enforcement Service is punished in the Kherson region.”
The address of the office of the “suppliers” of the jailers is indicated with. Schastlivtsevo, Naberezhnaya street, 15. By entering this address into the Google search engine, you can find many links to the Coral recreation center. And Ukrainian registries confirm that Travel Agency – Sputnik LLC is registered at this address. The beneficiary of this company through TAS Asset Management LLC is Ukrainian businessman Sergey Leonidovich Tigipko.
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According to international law, the occupying state in the occupied territory is obliged to ensure public order, take care of the life and health of the population. Russia violates these elementary rules. On March 13, in one of the houses in the village of Malokakhovka, Kakhovka territorial community, local residents found a mummified corpse A 48-year-old man with a mental disorder. He appeared in the village in early autumn 2022. Fellow villagers several times appealed to representatives of the occupying authorities with a request to provide the person with medical assistance, but they refused.
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New names of servants of the Russian occupiers are being clarified. The Russian invaders appointed an illiterate as the Gauleiter of the village of Dudchino of the Tavrichanskaya territorial community of the Kakhov district in the occupied part of the Kherson region electricity Ruslan Kovalchuk.
There is only one way from appointment to punishment. For high treason to the Gauleiter of the village of Gladkovka in the occupied Kherson region to Aleksey Buzov faces life imprisonment. And the fake “rector” of the Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University Evgenia Chernysheva faces up to 12 years in prison.
On March 15, the SBU department in the Transcarpathian region reported suspicion of treason to the chief state sanitary doctor of the Kherson region, Yuriy Romaskevich. The basis for suspicion was the publication Center for Investigative Journalism.
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If not prison, then liquidation. In the occupied Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, an attempt was made on the life of the deputy Gauleiter of the city, Vitaly Guru. Partisans blew up a collaborator’s car near the Tasty Country canteen in the Sokol microdistrict. Gura survived and is now treating his wound in one of the hospitals.
March 17 in the evening near the building of the Jubilee Village Council in the occupied part of Kherson car explodedwith 44-year-old collaborator from Nova Kakhovka Sergey Moskalenko. In March 2022, he became the “head of the temporary detention center” in the “Novokakhovsky police department” illegally created by the occupiers and was involved in the abductions and torture of many civilians in the Kakhovka district.
Zaporozhye region
The region is under fire from invaders. Constant shelling continues in the Stepnogorsk, Orekhovsky and Gulyai-Polye communities.
In Zaporozhye, forced evacuation of children may begin with a significant increase in shelling. This is discussed in the message of the Zaporozhye Regional Military Administration.
As a result, as a result of a rocket attack on the city of Zaporozhye on the night of March 18, one of the objects of the residential complex was damaged. The blast wave and debris damaged a number of residential apartment buildings: facades, windows, roofs.
Traces of the Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhya. March 18, 2023 Traces of the Russian missile attack near Zaporizhzhya. Photo: Suspіlne Zaporizhzhya
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In the temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporozhye region On March 14, a car explodedthat was parked in a residential area of the city. Ivan Tkach, a local carrier-collaborator, died from injuries. Another person was hurt. According to unconfirmed data, he is also a collaborator.
Ivan Tkach, collaborator. The blown-up car of Tkach in Melitopol, 03/14/2023. Photo: occupation TV channel
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Russian invaders are robbing Melitopol residents. The Russians, with the help of local traitors, are squeezing industrial enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses from the owners, registering them in the Russian legislative field. Melitopol gauleiters went further – in this city – the first in the occupied territories began “nationalization” of apartments.
In the first ten days of March 2023 alone, about fifty private apartments located in different parts of Melitopol were included by the occupiers in the list of objects of the so-called “ownerless property”. As such, the invaders recognize any property whose owners did not personally provide the occupational “administration” with title documents for it, because, for example, they left for the territory controlled by Ukraine.
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Russia continues to carry out compulsory passportization population of the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region. In Melitopol, the invaders forbade making any payments and settlements to persons without a Russian taxpayer card, which can only be obtained with a Russian passport.
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The Russian military is hiding behind the civilians of the occupied territories. Military unit No. 94919 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation relocated from Rostov-on-Don to temporarily occupied Berdyansk and placed it in a residential area, using civilians as a “human shield” from possible attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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In the occupied Primorsk, Zaporozhye region, the Russian military school robbed, whose graduates could continue their free studies in Bulgaria. In the northern Sea of Azov, ethnic Bulgarians make up the majority of the region’s population. And in the Kherson region, a column of Russian invaders moved towards the Crimea together with the stolen property – the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Crimea
Russians terrorize civilians in the occupied Crimea. FSB detained activist and civil journalist Rolan Osmanov in the “case of undermining the railway.” In the village of Urozhaynoye, Simferopol District, the activist’s house was searched, after which he was taken to the FSB headquarters.
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In Russian Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court on March 15 started the process against a citizen of Ukraine Pavel Zaporozhets. The Russians accuse him of attempting “to commit a terrorist attack in Kherson during the celebrations dedicated to the Victory Day.” The Russian military abducted Pavel Zaporozhets on May 9 to accuse him of “preparing an act of international terrorism.” At first, Pavel was kept in a detention center in Kherson. They tried to extract evidence against him from him. Violence was used, in particular, they were tortured with electric current. Later he was transferred to SIZO-2 in Simferopol.
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In Simferopol pre-trial detention center No. 2, which the FSB of Russia turned into its secret prison, abducted in the occupied south and in the Crimea Ukrainians are kept in complete isolation from the outside world. In SIZO No. 2 in Simferopol, the FSB illegally detains Vitaly Ryazanovaa resident of Kalanchak and a former soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, accused of “international terrorism”.
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RF preparing for defensive actions in the Crimea – intelligence service. The invaders have created a defense group in the occupied Crimea and are preparing for defensive actions. The Russians built the most powerful defensive lines in the north of the peninsula and in the south of the Kherson region on the approaches to the Crimea.
In addition, the Russian invaders erected a line of anti-tank fortifications on the Ak-Monai Isthmus, connecting the Kerch Peninsula with the main part of Crimea. Protective reinforced concrete pyramidsknown as “dragon’s teeth”, more than one and a half meters high, are installed in three rows.
“Dragon’s teeth” on the Ak-Monai isthmus in the occupied Crimea, March 2023 Photo: RFE/RL
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Crimean operator “Miranda media”, which already provides access to cable Internet in the temporarily occupied Zaporozhye region, will become the only telecom operator in the occupied territories of Zaporozhye, Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
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The Pre-trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court on 17 March issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Commissioner for Children Maria Lvova-Belova because of the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to the territory of Russia, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
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Court in Germany fined the company, which helped the Russian Federation to build the Kerch bridge for violating sanctions. Between 2016 and 2017, the German company sold a hydraulic hammer used to build the Kerch Bridge to Russia, while European Union sanctions banned economic transactions with the annexed territory, according to the prosecution.
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On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in the occupied Donbas. Russia launched missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and launched a direct full-scale invasion in four directions. The armed forces of Ukraine are rebuffing the enemy, the blitzkrieg plan – to capture Kyiv in two or three days – failed, the Russian army retreated from the capital. The Russian military commits thousands of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout Ukraine.
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