February 27 – March 6: While resistance movements continued working in Ukraine’s occupied territories, Moscow assembled units of collaborators willing to betray their neighbors and tapped the phones of public workers. Residents were told to switch to Russian passports and warned their cars will be seized if they fail to do so.
Russian Forces focused their main efforts on offensive operations on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Shakhtarsk fronts.
In Crimea, the occupying authorities started recruiting “voluntary units” to counter active resistance movements and cover for the shortage of police. The units will patrol urban areas and hunt residents who are acting as saboteurs and artillery spotters for Ukraine.
In the Mariupol and Kherson regions, the occupying regime is also strengthening its control and has ordered public employees to hand in their personal phones so the software can be installed to record their conversations. In the occupied areas of Kherson Oblast, FSB representatives have been overseeing large-scale searches of residential buildings and carrying out telephone checks.
