‘Shut his mouth, or you’ll all be shot’ How Russian occupation forces transformed the Ukrainian city of Melitopol into ‘Europe’s largest prison’

‘Shut his mouth, or you’ll all be shot’ How Russian occupation forces transformed the Ukrainian city of Melitopol into ‘Europe’s largest prison’

Russian soldiers in Melitopol on July 14, 2022 Russian troops entered Melitopol at the very start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, report journalists at iStories, the city has become a center of partisan resistance and simultaneously “the largest prison in Europe,” where Russian soldiers kidnap and torture residents with impunity. Meduza summarizes this latest report on Ukrainians’ lives under Russian occupation. According to a…

In the Zaporizhia region, the Russian military turned Melitopol, occupied since the first days of the war, into “the biggest prison in Europe”. The independent journalistic project “Important Stories” writes about this. The authors identified the addresses of places where people were tortured and talked to those who managed to escape.