In Melitopol and other temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region, Russians threaten to deport Ukrainians for their pro-Ukrainian views. Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov announced this to Telegam.

“The pseudo-authority issued a pseudo-decree that the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region will be deported for Ukrainian symbols, for a non-pro-Russian position,” said Ivan Fedorov. “This pseudo-authority presented itself as Stalin and they want to repeat the scenario of 1944 – the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea.”.

He emphasized that anyone who tries to do this will end badly.. But he expressed confidence that the de-occupation of the south of the Zaporozhye region would take place faster than the attempts of the invaders to carry out such a deportation.

“I am sure that this, firstly, will not happen. And before the rashists carry out pseudo-deportations, we will return to our temporarily occupied city,” the mayor of Melitopol emphasized.

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Recall, a month ago, the Russian military announced that they had deported more than 1.9 million people from Ukraine.. people, including more than 307 thousand children since the beginning of a full-scale invasion. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken qualified the violent act as a war crime, stressing that Moscow deliberately separates Ukrainian children from their parents or kidnaps them from orphanages before giving them up for adoption in Russia, and also detains or takes away to an unknown destination thousands of Ukrainian citizens who.