Forced evacuation: locals and collaborators from Zaporizhzhya region are taken to the Russian Federation

Currently, according to the head of Zaporizhzhya Ova Yuri Malashko, the invaders cancel the measures by May 9 and take valuable property of local residents on stolen cars. In the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye Ova, Russian military, using intimidation, massively export the civilians to Russia, as well as local collaborators with families. On May 8, Yuri Malashko, the head of Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration, announced on the air of Radio Liberty.

According to Malashko, collaborators, together with their relatives, actively leave the captured territories and urge everyone who received Russian passports to do the same. At the same time, he noted that the occupiers are trying to intimidate local civilians with mottled active military action, and under this pretext, they carry out "voluntary" evacuation of the population, exporting Ukrainians through the occupied Crimea or Donetsk region to Russia.

The head of the Zaporizhzhia region noted that the Russian military increased the number of shelling from artillery and RSSL on Ukrainian positions. In the occupied cities, Russian soldiers began to cancel a number of measures by May 9, banned mass clusters of people and increased the duration of the curfew.

Malashko also reported that according to the Ukrainian military, the occupiers are selected from the locals, which are actively exported from the occupied territories of the region valuable property and equipment. We will remind, yesterday, May 7, the mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov denied recent announcements of the occupiers about the mass evacuation of the local population and confirmed the partial evacuation and panic among the citizens who issued Russian passports.