Zaporozhye authorities named Melitopol the temporary capital of the region

A man is walking along the road in Melitopol. Archive photoSIMFEROPOL, June 6The city of Melitopol actually became the temporary capital of the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region. Earlier it was reported that two-thirds of the Zaporozhye region was liberated from Ukrainian nationalists and is under the control of the Russian army. At the same time, the regional center, the city of Zaporozhye, remains under the control of the Kyiv regime. «Until the liberation of the city of Zaporozhye, the temporary capital of the Zaporozhye region is Melitopol. Firstly, it is the largest city, and secondly, from the point of view of logistics, it is located between two other fairly large and important cities — Berdyansk and Energodar,» Rogov told RIA Novosti. According to him, Berdyansk is the sea gate of the region, and Energodar, where the nuclear power plant is located, is the main energy center of the region.At the entrance to Melitopol, a sign «Russia forever» was installed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations have been formed in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. The liberated regions announced plans to become subjects of the Russian Federation.The West left Russia no way out