Russian forces have set up mobile checkpoints in the center of temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, to try to identify Ukrainian partisans, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said in a televised address on Aug. 15, reports Hromadske. According to Fedorov, Russian forces are also pressuring local teachers and threatening to take away parental rights should they not send their children to school, which will likely follow a Russian curriculum.
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The number of drones has surged throughout the morning.
The crew ejected and was recovered by a search-and-rescue team, the ministry claimed.
"Yet thousands of children remain under occupation," the NGO Save Ukraine said.
"This refinery is a key component of Russia's fuel and energy complex and is used to meet the needs of the Russian military," the General Staff said.
"The Russians have only intensified their attacks and, instead of silence in the skies, are carrying out an Easter escalation," Zelensky said following the call.
"I support unity and want the parliament to function effectively," he said. "But today, the public position of some representatives of parliamentary factions is clearly not aimed at unity."





