During the New Year holidays, the occupiers intensified administrative and police measures in the illegally seized territories. This is stated in the evening summary in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“The Russian occupation troops have tightened the administrative and police regime for the period of the New Year holidays in certain settlements of the temporarily occupied territory. So, from December 31, 2022 to January 6, 2023, the city of Genichesk, Kherson region, was closed for exit, and residents of the surrounding villages were also banned from leaving,” the General Staff noted..

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Earlier, the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov, said that as of the end of 2022, Ukrainian defenders had already liberated 40% of the territories of Ukraine occupied by Russian troops after February 24.

According to him, only during the autumn, during the offensive operation in the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated 12 thousand square meters.. km of territory - about 500 settlements, and about 6 thousand square meters were released in the Kherson direction. km - more than 200 settlements were dismissed.