Fake queues for Russian passports staged in Russian-occupied Berdiansk

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2022, 16:28

Ukrainian intelligence reports that the occupation administration of the city of Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast is staging fake queues in local Centres for Providing Administrative Services (CPAS) in order to demonstrate the locals’ "willingness" to receive Russian passports.

Source: Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Quote: "The Berdiansk occupation administration is staging fake queues in local CPASs in order to demonstrate the supposed "willingness" of the local residents to receive Russian passports. Everyone who is registered at the Berdiansk military commandant’s office are being forcibly sent to CPASs to create queues in front of the centres where people’s official photographs are taken.

Those who refuse to queue are made to perform community service."

Details: In addition, Ukrainian intelligence reports that a mobile Russian electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare unit was at work in the temporarily occupied territories in southern Ukraine last week.

Whenever the unit was working at a particular site, the mobile service provided by Ukrainian operators would disappear within a one kilometre radius and it would become impossible to access Ukrainian websites on the internet. After the unit left each site, access to Ukrainian websites would be restored.

"It’s possible that the unit’s main task is to find people who are pro-Ukrainian along with their families," Ukrainian Chief Intelligence Directorate believes.