Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that from August 1, Russian troops will require special passes from residents of Melitopol to leave the occupied territory.
“Since yesterday, they began to inform that from Monday, in order to leave the territory temporarily occupied in the commandant’s office, it will be necessary to take some special passes..
They are trying to complicate the exit from the territory,"
According to him, more than 800 cars and more than 4,000 citizens are waiting in line at the checkpoint in Vasilyevka to leave the temporarily occupied territories..
Russian troops let cars into Ukrainian-controlled territory only in the morning.
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The Russian occupation troops admit the possibility of their withdrawal from Melitopol and warn that in this case, all the city infrastructure mined by them will be destroyed.