Office of the President says Russian occupiers taking their families from southern Ukraine back to Russia

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – TUESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2022, 22:11

The Office of the President of Ukraine says that Russian collaborators and occupiers in southern Ukraine and in Crimea have started to take their families back to Russia. Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol, reports that convoys of Russian military equipment are heading towards Crimea, which is temporarily occupied by Russian forces.

Source: Mykhailo Podoliak, Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, on Twitter; Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol, on Telegram

Quote from Podoliak: "Key representatives of [Russian] occupation administrations in southern Ukraine and Crimea are urgently evacuating their families to the Russian Federation. At the same time, they are selling real estate and other property en masse.

The occupiers are beginning to recognise the contours of the future ‘negotiation process’: they will need to seek out lawyers to defend them in court."

Quote from Fedorov: "The occupiers are fleeing Melitopol towards occupied Crimea. Convoys of military equipment were seen at a checkpoint in Chonhar. This was predictable: Ukraine’s decisive counteroffensive has left them no choice."

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