On March 22, the Russian military removed Ukrainian flags from the administrative buildings of Volchansk and replaced them with tricolors.. During the distribution of humanitarian aid, the invaders collected signatures in an attempt to change the mayor.

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" To get it, a person had to enter his passport data in some kind of sheet. And in that sheet at the bottom there was a signature in small print, they say, " It was like the election of a new head,"

According to him, the mayor of Volchansky Anatoly Stepants was once taken to the territory of the Russian Federation, threatened and inclined to cooperate, but he refused.

The Chizh candidate, for whom the Russian military was collecting signatures, is Dmitry Chigrinov, whose photo hung for a long time in the Kharkiv metro among the wanted lists. A man with that name was really wanted for robbery in Kharkov in 2016.

As the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov stated, the Russians create a false picture about the alleged support of the " But they made it clear there that Volchansk is Ukraine!

" It will not be possible to buy our Ukrainians with cheap handouts.

We appeal to local residents: do not succumb to provocations, do not believe the promises, slogans of those who kill Ukrainians by the thousands! Do not sign any documents, do not take any help from the hands of the occupiers! For on these hands are the death of Ukrainians and destroyed cities! We will not forget anything, we will definitely take revenge, we will give a worthy rebuff and an answer! "