The Russian occupiers brought almost 100,000 Russians to Melitopol. The population of the city has become larger than before the full-scale invasion.
Russians populate Melitopol
The legitimate mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, reported that the Russians are forcibly changing the national composition of the temporarily occupied territories.
By February 24, 2022, about 150,000 people lived in Melitopol. Within six months after the occupation, more than half of the native residents left the city for the territory controlled by Ukraine and abroad.
From that time, tourists and guest workers from Russia began to visit the city en masse. According to a local resident of Melitopol, the city's population has become larger than it was before the occupation, i.e. more than 150,000. Mostly these are those who came
Thus, according to Fedorov, the Russians are trying to suppress the Ukrainian resistance in the occupied territory.
The people of Melitopol do not recognise the occupiers and are waiting for the return of Ukraine.
The city of Melitopol has been under occupation since February 26, 2022.
Partisan movement in Melitopol
On January 14, Ukrainian partisans blew up a car with Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied Melitopol.
The DIU noted that the UAZ Patriot vehicle with Russian invaders was blown up after the special operation by the Ukrainian resistance forces.
According to preliminary information, not everyone needed doctors. The exact number of irreversible and sanitary losses of the enemy is being clarified.
On December 15, the resistance movement blew up a railway train in the city, which daily transported ammunition and fuel from Crimea to Melitopol and Dniprorudnyi.
The National Resistance Center notes that this is already the eleventh successful sabotage on the railway in 2023. The Resistance Movement successfully blew up the previous train on October 13.
