Сollaborators flee from Crimea through Melitopol en masse

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SATURDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2022, 22:27

On Saturday, after an explosion on the Crimean bridge, occupiers and collaborators began to flee to Russia through occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast en masse.

Source: Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol, on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast

Quote: "Today, dozens of thousands of collaborators and traitors use Melitopol to pass from Crimea, because they are running away. We see panic among them; a big movement from Crimea to Berdiansk has started, because the only way to leave the occupied territory is through Melitopol, Berdiansk, Mariupol, and then the territory of the Russian Federation. 

As of now, this area is overloaded, a large amount of cars have left Crimea and are going to Russia. 

This is also due to the explosions in Melitopol during the evening yesterday. They continued this morning, as well, when explosions started at Ruscists’ ammunition depots in Radyvonivka. Detonations lasted for a few hours. We see panic among occupiers and especially collaborators."

Details: Fedorov has also stated that men from the occupied territories who received Russian passports are pulled over at checkpoints and "immediately taken into the [Russian] army."

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