In the south of Ukraine, in the occupied part of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Russia is conducting an accelerated Russification of the territories it has seized.
Intensive work is underway to include parts of these regions in the administrative field of the Russian Federation.
The distribution of Russian passports is proceeding at an accelerated pace. For coercion to obtain a Russian passport, both police pressure and administrative pressure are used, for example, when, for example, all employees are given a peremptory requirement to obtain a Russian passport.
Also, the repair and reconstruction of the road network for the needs of the RF Ministry of Defense is proceeding at a feverish pace.
Work is underway to build new defensive lines and defensive structures.
Intensive work is underway with the youth — more and more propaganda organizations are being created in schools and educational institutions.
Work is underway with the population to severely suppress pro-Ukrainian sentiments and at the same time shower its loyal part with cash payments and benefits.
So teachers in the occupied part of the Kherson region who cooperate with the Russian administration receive exactly twice the salary than their colleagues in the Kursk or Rostov regions.
To encourage parents to participate in the Russian school curriculum, as of September 1, they were paid bonuses of 10,000 rubles for each student.
However, despite the gigantic injections of money into the so-called. new territories, the population tends to leave them.
The euphoria and delight of the first months of the occupation among the pro-Russian part of the population began to rapidly disappear.
After leaving Kherson, many pro-Russian residents of the regions began to understand that the slogan «Russia is here forever» remained a propaganda slogan and nothing more.
People who received Russian passports in the first months of the occupation and supported the Russian administration began to travel either to Russia or to the West.
People with a pro-Ukrainian position have always left the occupied territories. Moreover, there were two bursts of active departure. The first was in May, when the first real signs of intentions to annex the occupied territories began to appear.
The second was in December, when it became clear that the Ukrainian side, after the liberation of the Pravoberezhnaya part, did not continue, for some reason, the counteroffensive across the Dnieper on the shoulders of the fleeing group of Russians.
The departure of people from the annexed territories is primarily associated with the uncertainty and hopelessness of these parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
According to preliminary estimates, from a third to a half of the population left the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
In general, the front in Kherson and especially Zaporozhye regions has stabilized at the level of May 2022.
The latter circumstance, as well as the fear of the population that the territories will turn into an analogue of the gray territories of the DPR and LPR, prompted, among other things, the Kremlin to draw a line towards annexation and their inclusion in the Russian Federation
For cover, they used the so-called. «referendum» which was held with the help of collaborators with the support of Russian soldiers.
