In Kakhovka and other settlements of the occupied Kherson region, the occupiers spread fakes about the withdrawal of troops and dismantled equipment in order to identify pro-Ukrainian residents.
This was reported by Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar.
With such actions, Russian agents provoke people to speak freely and pass information about them to the occupying so-called law enforcement agencies.
They also deliberately disconnected subscribers from Russian mobile and wired Internet operators.
Earlier, Hanna Malyar reported that the Russian occupying forces are deliberately trying to exacerbate social tension in certain areas of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in order to push the local population to leave for Russia. The number of cases of rude and disrespectful treatment of people by the Russian military has increased.
- Practically the entire Kherson region was captured by the Russian invaders at the beginning of a large-scale invasion in February-March 2022. In November 2022, the Defense Forces of Ukraine liberated the right-bank part of the Kherson region, together with the regional center, from the Russian occupiers.
- After that, the Russians began systematically shelling Kherson and other liberated settlements in the region. The left-bank part of the Kherson region remains under Russian occupation.