The occupiers are preparing Melitopol for a "referendum" by enforcing the replacement of passports and car licence plates
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2022, 16:46
In order to prepare for a pseudo-referendum in Melitopol, the occupiers are forcing the city residents by blackmailing them to change their passports and licence plates on their private vehicles.
Source: Centre for National Resistance
Quote: "The residents of Melitopol are refusing to take the passports. Therefore, the Russians are simply confronting them with a fact – a pension and budget payments in exchange for a passport. However, not even such actions are enabling the large-scale launch of passportisation."
Details: The invaders plan to turn the region into the Tavriia province as part of the Russian Federation. Therefore, [the Russian forces] have invented new car licence plates: they must display "TVR" instead of "UA", otherwise a penalty will be issued.
Previously:
On 11 June, the occupiers handed over the first 30 Russian passports to locals in captured Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Passports were also handed out in Kherson. Only 23 people from the entire regional centre took them, including a collaborator and former mayor Volodymyr Saldo.