Ivan Bilyj

Zaporizhzhia region is among Ukrainian regions with scarce water resources. Rivers Dnipro and Berda, Kakhovka and Dnipro reservoirs and Kakhovka main water channel are key sources of water for local residents. As an outcome of the Russian destruction of Kakhovka Hydro Power Station, the supply of water to the south of Zaporizhzhia region has been…

Russians and their collaborators actively prepare for illegal elections to «legislative» and «representative» bodies on newly occupied territories of Ukraine in September 2023. Russian political party «United Russia» conducts so-called preliminary electronic voting (primary elections), borrowed from the USA and other «unfriendly» countries. Participants of these primaries are local traitors and collaborators as well as…

Traitors and collaborators prepare to participate in illegal elections that Russia plans for autumn 2023 on the occupied part of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. By now, regional offices of only three Russian political parties («United Russia», «Communist Party of the Russian Federation» and «Liberal Democratic Party of Russia») have been registered in the Russian State…

Russian invaders and local collaborators force residents in temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region to receive passports of the Russian Federation. «Russian governor» Yevhen Balytsky promised to give passports to 80% of local population before illegal «elections» in September 2023.

After the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, occupied cities of the Ukrainian South have been controlled by various occupation “guard dogs” – “police”, “security services” or “commandant’s offices”. Their main task is to support the Russian occupation regime, “to clean” occupied cities from disloyal residents, to suppress resistance, to abduct and torture pro-Ukrainian activists,…

In order to manage occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, Russia set up occupation authorities – “military civil administrations” (MCA). Our material “Russian “government”of occupied Zaporizhzhia region” covered Russian regional administration. Invaders divided occupied territory into five parts or five raions with respective administrations: Melitopolsky, Berdyansky, Vasylivsky, Energodarsky and Pologivsky.  The Center for Journalist Investigations found…

Russian occupation authorities on the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region organized the so-called “military civil administration of the oblast” (MCA). That is to say, “government” and its ministries, “departments” and “divisions” belong to the MCA. Its current website presents only traitor Yevhen Balytsky (he is also an “acting governor of the oblast”), his deputy Mykhailo…

The Center for Journalist Investigations continues a series of publications about Ukrainians on occupied territories whom Russian special services abducted, tortured, knocked out «confessions» and accused of preparing «acts of international terrorism». Current article is about five Melitopol residents whom the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) appointed as «terrorists». As FSB pretended, they prepared an…

Russian invaders ban “wrong” religious organizations in occupied Melitopol. They seize premises of churches and force priests to leave. Only one confession feels itself safely on occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region. It is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate…

The new wave of people’s evacuation started in Melitopol in the middle of June – many families with school age children leave the city. They do not want their children to be taught “under standards of the Russian Federation” or to be poisoned by propaganda, deceitful history or hatred towards anything Ukrainian. Melitopol became the…