Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, Ivan Fedorov confirms that russians can mobilize 300 thousand residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine

He said this on Telegram.

"Unfortunately, in my opinion, this is a realistic plan of putin's, and we have several confirmations that this plan can begin to be implemented. First of all, we have seen for more than two years of occupation that after each iteration of such under-elections, the enemy begins to behave much more harshly with the civilian population," the head of Zaporizhzhia region said.

Thus, according to him, the enemy worsened its attitude towards civilians after the so-called referendum held in the fall of 2022 and the "local elections" of 2023, "when immediately after September 10, almost all social benefits and some humanitarian support were taken away."

Thus, he believes it is likely that mobilization will take place after the presidential "elections", especially since almost everything is ready for it. 

"For the last 4 months, the enemy has been preparing for mobilization and absolutely registering everyone, they have opened military registration offices in every district and village, opened military registration at every enterprise, and thus they are trying to fully register all our residents in order to have a complete picture: where our residents live, who is subject to military registration, where residents who can be called up live. And I am sure that after their by-elections, they will definitely mobilize our residents from the temporary occupation," Fedorov said.

He also made an assumption about the number of residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region who can be mobilized.

"Until February 24, approximately 550-600 thousand people lived in the TOT of Zaporizhzhia region. We understand that about 40-50% of the population left. So today, there are about 350-400 thousand indigenous people, those who live today in the temporary occupation. This means that the mobilization potential today is at least 50-70 thousand people whom the enemy can drag into his racist army, so the danger definitely remains for a huge number of people," the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration emphasized.

• On March 18, it was reported that the kremlin dictator vladimir putin was predictably "elected" for a new term in russia in the so-called presidential elections, which took place on March 15-17.