According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, the “leaders” of the local occupiers are moving to Melitopol from the Kherson region. Preparations for the “referendum” continue, although the occupiers themselves do not know how the “voting” will take place: the dates and plans have been changed several times.
At the same time, 90% of Melitopol residents who remained in the city do not openly support Russia. The resistance forces destroy the collaborators – on August 13, two explosions were recorded in the city – in the lower part of the city near the military commissariat and in the northern part near the forest park, where Russian equipment was brought.
More than 6,000 people are waiting for permission from the occupiers to leave the temporarily occupied territories. The Ukrainian side is doing everything to ensure that the occupiers agree on a “green” corridor for civilians for the first time in four months.
