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Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

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Not to be confused with 2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Date1 March 2022 – present (2022-03-01 – present)
(2 years, 8 months and 2 days)
Location
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

 Ukraine

 Russia

Commanders and leaders
Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov
Ukraine Rustem Umerov
Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi
Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev
Autonomous Republic of Crimea Tamila Tasheva
Donetsk Oblast Vadym Filashkin
Luhansk Oblast Artem Lysohor
Kherson Oblast Oleksandr Prokudin
Zaporizhzhia Oblast Ivan Fedorov
Kharkiv Oblast Oleh Syniehubov
Mykolaiv Oblast Vitaliy Kim		 Russia Vladimir Putin
Russia Sergei Shoigu
Russia Andrey Belousov
Russia Valery Gerasimov
Republic of Crimea (Russia) Sergey Aksyonov
Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev
Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin
Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik
Volodymyr Saldo
Yevhen Balytskyi
Vitaly Ganchev
Units involved
Popular Resistance of Ukraine[1]
Berdiansk Partisan Army[2]
Yellow Ribbon[3]
Atesh[4]
SBU[citation needed]
Special Operations Forces[3]

Russian Armed Forces
Rosgvardiya
OMON
FSB
Russian Border Guards
Police of Russia
Ukrainian collaborators

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia occupied vast portions of the territory of Ukraine, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entire Autonomous Republic of Crimea since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2014. Partisan groups began to be organized in mid-2022.[5] These groups have been involved in intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and assassinations. Much of their activity has taken place in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

2022

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March

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On 1 March, the mayor of Kreminna, Volodymyr Struk was abducted from his home. His wife claimed that unknown camouflaged men entered their property and kidnapped her husband. On 2 March, Struk was found shot dead with a gunshot wound in his chest. Anton Herashchenko, an advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine claimed that Struk was killed by "unknown patriots", suggesting that locals were responsible for his abduction and assassination. Struk was known to be an important pro-Russia figure in the Luhansk region with "money and support from the Russian Federation", who had already expressed support for Russian proxy-forces back in 2014. Before his death, Struk called on local authorities to communicate and collaborate with approaching Russian forces.[6][7]

On 20 March, two unknown assailants shot and killed the assistant to Volodymyr Saldo, Pavel Slobodchikov, in his car outside Saldo's house in Kherson.[8]

April

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On 3 April, the Ukrainian government stated that two Russian soldiers were killed and 28 others hospitalized after Ukrainian civilians handed out poisoned cakes to Russian soldiers of the Russian 3rd Motor Rifle Division in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast.[9][10]

On 20 April, pro-Russian blogger Valery Kuleshov was shot and killed while in his car in Kherson.[11]

On 21 April, on a television interview, the mayor of Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Ukrainian partisans had killed 100 Russian soldiers in the city, primarily Russian police patrols and mostly through ambushes at night. Fedorov also claimed that the Russian army was struggling to deal with these partisans, as the majority of the population of Melitopol was against the Russian presence.[12]

On 21 April, Ukrayinski Novini reported that partisans in occupied Kherson had left a banner with a message on a pole in the city, which said: "Russian occupier and everyone who supports their regime. We are close—we are already working in Kherson. Death awaits you all! Kherson is Ukraine!".[13]

On 25 April, Pavel Sharogradsky, a pro-Russian resident of Novoaidar in the Luhansk region was kidnapped by unknown suspects, after becoming a high-profile collaborator in the town. Sharogradsky met with representatives of the Russian Armed Forces and reportedly gave away names and addresses of local political activists, veterans of the Ukrainian army, suspected partisans and their families. A couple of days later, his dead body was found with severe injuries and a gunshot wound to his head.[14]

On 26 April, the Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast, Vitaliy Kim, said that there had been resistance against the Russian army in the Kherson Oblast for two months and that Ukrainian partisans had killed 80 Russian troops in the region.[15]

On 28 April, 24 Kanal reported that partisans in occupied Nova Kakhovka had left a banner with a message on a pole in the city. It said as follows: "Russian occupier! Know! Kakhovka is Ukraine! We are close! Our people are already working here! Death awaits you! Kakhovka is Ukraine!".[16]

On 28 April, Apostrophe reported that guerrillas blew up the railway bridge in Yakymivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[17]

On 30 April, members of the Berdiansk Partisan Army (BPA) posted a video on Telegram calling for Russian troops to leave Berdiansk. They announced that they were organizing their forces and that they were "ready to come out of the shadows". The account of this organization was used during the invasion for gathering and showing evidence of Russian crimes in the city and information about collaborators with the Russian army in Berdiansk.[2]

May

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On 13 May, Oleksii Reznikov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, spoke of the defeats and difficulties that Russian troops had been experiencing in Ukraine ever since the start of the invasion. Reznikov also spoke of the partisans in Kherson, Melitopol and other localities, calling them "an important contribution to common victory".[18]

On 22 May, in occupied Enerhodar, Ukrainian partisans detonated an explosive in front of a residential building where the Russian-appointed mayor of the city Andrei Shevchik was located. Shevchik and his bodyguards sustained injuries of varying severity, and Shevchik ended up in intensive care. He was first taken to a hospital in Enerhodar and then to another in Melitopol.[19]

On 28 May, an unknown person attempted to set fire to a Russian military enlistment office in Simferopol, Russian-occupied Crimea. The suspect reportedly used a molotov cocktail in the unsuccessful attack, which only caused minor damage.[20]

In late May, six Russian border guards at the Zernovo border checkpoint in northern Ukraine were reportedly killed on the week of 30 May–5 June when they were attacked by Ukrainian partisans. Two days later, a bomb exploded near the office of Russian-installed Zaporizhzhia Oblast governor Yevhen Balytskyi, a pro-Russian official and de facto mayor of Melitopol.[5]

June

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On 18 June, an explosive device went off in the car of Yevgeny Sobolev, the head of the Kherson Region penal service. He survived the blast and was taken to a hospital according to TASS.[21]

On 20 June, three Russian soldiers were at a waterfront cafe in Kherson when a shooter opened fire at them. Two of the soldiers were killed, while the surviving soldier was hospitalised, according to Ukrainian Southern Command.[22]

On 24 June, in occupied Kherson, a Russian appointed official, Dmitry Savluchenko, was killed by a car bomb, reportedly placed by Ukrainian partisans.[23]

July

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On 7 July police officer Serhii Tomko who had defected to the Russian side was shot and killed in his vehicle in Nova Kakhovka.[24]

On 11 July, Yevgeny Yunakov, the Russian-appointed administrator of Velykyi Burluk was killed by a car bomb according to TASS.[25]

On 24 July, partisans in Melitopol attacked rail infrastructure during the night, causing moderate damage to a section of railway. Explosions were reportedly heard near the Melitopol Airfield and near the village of Kostyantynivka, according to the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov.[26]

On 26 July, Euromaidan Press reported that the Satelit factory in Mariupol had been attacked by partisans and "has been burning for 10 days".[27]

On 27 July, in occupied Kherson an improvised explosive blew up a car with two defecting police officers inside of it, both were severely injured and one later died from his wounds.[28]

On 28 July, The Daily Telegraph reported that posters with the message "Can't leave? HIMARS will help you" had begun appearing in Kherson.[29]

On 29 July, partisans in Luhansk Oblast burned a distribution box controlling the railway traffic lights, junctions and crossings near Svatove during the night, according to the head of the Luhansk Regional Military-Civil Administration, Serhiy Haidai.[30] Also on 29 July, Petro Andriushchenko, the Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol, reported that partisans had set grain fields near the city on fire so that Russian forces would not be able to steal and export the grain.[31]

August

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On 4 August, a local partisan group ambushed a car, which was carrying the Russian-installed mayor and his deputy in Bilovodsk, a town in the northern part of the Luhansk Oblast. Both passengers sustained injuries from the small arms fire that targeted their car and had to undergo medical treatment.[32]

On 6 August, Ukrainian media reported that the deputy head of the Russian administration in Nova Kakhovka, Vitaly Guru, was shot dead in his home;[33] this was, however, refuted.[34]

On 11 August, Askyar Laishev, a former traffic police officer and the Russian-appointed Head of Intelligence of the Luhansk region, was killed when resistance fighters blew up his car in Starobilsk. He was reportedly able to eject from his burning car, but later succumbed to his injuries. Laishev's ties to Russian proxies were exposed back in 2014, when Oleh Liashko's volunteer unit Ukrayina found out that Laishev was covering for a local separatist named Vikor Rybalko, who was involved in organizing a referendum on the independence of the region. The incident was caught on camera by former Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky, who joined Liashko and his men on a nightly raid.[35][36][37]

On 13 August, pictures of leaflets, which were taken in Lysychansk, started to appear online. The posters contained messages, in which the partisans threatened the lives of local collaborators and Russian-installed officials. This is part of a presumed larger intimidation operation in the western Luhansk Oblast, as similar posters started to appear in Severodonetsk a month earlier.[38][39]

On 15 August, mayor of Melitopol reported that guerrillas blew up the railway bridge which was used by Russians near the city.[40]

On 20 August, pro-Ukrainian partisans conducted an unsuccessful attack against Konstantin Ivashchenko, the Russian-installed mayor of Mariupol, using an improvised explosive device.[41]

On 23 August, Ihor Telehin, the deputy head of the internal policy department in Kherson Oblast was injured in a targeted explosion.[42]

On 24 August, the head of the Russian-appointed administration of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia oblast Ivan Sushko was wounded in a car bombing, he was taken to a hospital and died there from his wounds.[43]

On 26 August, Russian-appointed official Oleksandr Koliesnikov, the deputy chief of the Berdiansk traffic police was injured in an explosion. He was taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds, where he died hours later.[44]

On 28 August, People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleksii Kovalov, who according to Ukrainian authorities at the beginning of July had assumed the position of deputy head of the Russian-appointed government of Kherson Oblast,[45] was shot dead in his own home. According to further reports, his girlfriend also died in hospital after she was stabbed.[46][45][47]

On 30 August, partisans reportedly launched attacks on pro-Russian security forces in Kherson city.[48]

September

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On 3 September, Maksym Mahrynov, a local from Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region blew himself up in front of his home when the Russian military tried to arrest him for guiding Ukrainian artillery fire. The blast killed Mahrynov on the spot and caused two more casualties among the Russian servicemen.[49]

On 6 September, Russian-installed official Artem Bardin was heavily wounded when his car was blown up in Berdyansk. Russian officials reported that he had lost both of his legs and doctors were "fighting for his life" in the hospital where he was kept.[50] Bardin later died in the hospital.[51]

On 7 September, the headquarters of a pro-Russian organization called "We Are Together With Russia" was bombed in Melitopol.[46]

On 10 September, Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai claimed that Ukrainian partisans had managed to capture parts of Kreminna during the 2022 Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast counteroffensive.[52]

On 16 September, the Deputy Head of Berdiansk CAA for Housing and Communal Services Oleg Boyko and his wife, Lyudmila Boyko—who was head of the city's election commission for the referendum to join Russia—were killed near their garage in Berdiansk in an apparent assassination.[53]

On 16 September, Serhiy Horenko, the Prosecutor General of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic and his deputy Kateryna Stehlenko were killed in a bomb attack that targeted their office in Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine.[54]

On 17 September, unknown suspects targeted a car belonging to Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov in an arson attack. The incident happened at Kiselyov's mansion in Koktebel, occupied Crimea.[55]

October–November

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On 31 October, Pavlo Ischuk, the Russian-installed First Deputy Mayor of Berdiansk for Foreign Policy and Mass Communications, was seriously injured by a bombing near his house in Berdiansk.[56]

On 4 November, Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that Alexander Nikulin, a judge of the Supreme Court of the DPR, was shot and seriously injured in Vuhlehirsk.[57]

On 15 November, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov stated that Dmitry Trukhin, a former member of the city council and director of 'communal property' suffered serious injuries after a bombing attack on his residence in Melitopol.[58]

December

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On 6 December, Ukrainian militants unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Mykola Volyk, who served as a Russian-installed deputy in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[59]

On 11 December, guerillas set fire to barracks, which were occupied by Russian soldiers in the Crimean village of Sovietske.[60]

On 12 December, Vitaly Bulyuk, First Deputy Head of the Kherson MCA for Economics, Financial and Budgetary Policy, Agriculture, Revenue and Fees, was injured in a car bombing in Skadovsk. His driver was killed.[61]

On 22 December, it was reported that Andrei Shtepa, head of the Russian occupation in the Kakhovka district of Kherson, was assassinated in a car bombing near a Soviet monument in Kakhovka.[62] His driver was also killed.[63]

2023

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January

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On 6 January, partisans blew up a railway line near Shchastya, Luhansk Oblast, which was mainly used to transport military equipment and stolen Ukrainian grain.[64]

On 8 January, the ISW reported that Ukrainian militants blew up a gas pipeline in Lutuhyne, Luhansk Oblast. The explosion left 13,000 subscribers without any gas supply.[65]

On 13 January, a car bombing attempting to kill the collaborator in charge of the Russian occupation of Berdiansk, Alexei Kichigin, took place, though he survived. On 16 January following a series of explosions, Ukrainian authorities announced that Kichigin had been killed in the strikes.[66]

On 24 January, local Russian collaborator Valentyna Mamai was targeted in a car bombing in the center of Berdiansk, and later hospitalized.[67][68]

February

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On 3 February, local Russian collaborator police officer in Enerhodar, and local head of Russian troops, Yevgeny Kuzmin was killed with an improvised explosive device (IED) while he was in his car.[69]

On 4 February, unknown suspects fatally shot Igor Mangushev in Russian-occupied Kadiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Mangushev served as an officer in the Russian military and gained international attention when he called for "the death of as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible" while brandishing a skull, which according to him, belonged to a fallen Ukrainian soldier.[70]

On 8 February, Ukrainian partisans committed an arson attack against a railway control station on the outskirts of Yasenivskyi in the occupied portion of the Luhansk Oblast.[71]

March

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On 14 March, local Russian collaborator Ivan Tkach was killed in a car bombing in the center of Melitopol.[72]

On 19 March, Russian collaborator Serhii Moskalenko was killed in a car bombing in Skadovsk by Atesh partisans. Moskalenko had set up torture chambers in Kherson Oblast during the Russian occupation and had been appointed a "prison warden" by the occupation authorities.[73]

On 19 March, there was an attempt to blow up a gas pipeline in the city of Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea. The facility suffered minor damage.[74][75]

On 27 March, the car of Mikhail Moskvin, the Russian-appointed chief of police, was blown up in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast. Moskvin survived.[76]

April–May

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On 23 April, Ukrainian militans of the Atesh movement ambushed a patrol of Russian soldiers by using an improvised explosive device near Oleshky, Kherson Oblast.[77]

On 27 April, Russian collaborator Oleksandr Mishchenko was killed in a bombing in Melitopol. Mishchenko was previously the Chief of Police of Pryazovske Raion and had served as Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Melitopol for personnel since the Russian invasion.[78][79]

On 2 May, a car bombing targeted another collaborating police officer in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The unnamed victim suffered injuries and was hospitalized.[80]

On 15 May, Igor Kornet, the Minister of the Interior of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, was seriously wounded by an explosion in the city center of Luhansk. It was reported that Kornet was inside of a barber shop at the time of the blast, which injured four more people.[81]

On 18 May, partisans blew up a railway line near Bakhchisaray, Crimea, causing the derailment of at least five freight wagons.[82][83]

June

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On 2 June, a car with four local collaborators was blown up in Russian-occupied Mykhailivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ivan Fedorov, the elected mayor of Melitopol, reported that one of the victims was Serhii Dydovodiuk, a local liquor distributor, who was known for having pro-Russian stances and serving fellow pro-Russian and Russian individuals at his café.[84]

On 11 June, a partisan cell blew up a railway line in occupied Yakymivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[85]

On 14 June, Ukrainian guerillas blew up a key railway line near Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukrainian officials claimed that in addition to 50 meters of railway track, five freight carts got destroyed by the detonation.[86]

On 19 June, the car of Vladimir Epifanov, the assistant of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, was blown up in Simferopol, Crimea. According to initial reports, Epifanov and his bodyguards survived the blast, but sustained severe injuries.[87][88]

On 21 June, Atesh partisans blew up a railway line between Feodosia and Vladyslavivka in Crimea, causing the disruption of railway traffic for multiple hours.[89][90]

On 24 June, two 16-year-old partisans were fatally shot by a Russian sniper in Berdiansk after killing a Russian soldier and a collaborating police officer.[91][nb 1]

July

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On 3 July, the FSB detained a man in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, who was preparing an assassination attempt on Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-installed Head of Crimea.[93]

On 19 July, Kyrylo Budanov, the Ukrainian head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, reported that Ukrainian partisans played a key role in the attack on a Russian ammunition depot near the Crimean town of Staryi Krym, which caused chain of strong explosions and the subsequent evacuation of nearby towns and villages.[94][95]

On 29 July, two Russian officers were killed and 15 others hospitalized as the result of a mass poisoning carried out by Ukrainian partisans in the Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol in the Donetsk Region of Eastern Ukraine. Petro Andriushchenko, the advisor to the elected mayor of the city, claimed that Russian authorities assume that cyanide and pesticides were added to food, which was handed out at an event location to celebrate the Day of the Russian Navy.[96]

August

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On 13 August, Ukrainian guerillas set fire to a Russian military base near the destroyed Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast. Local Ukrainian authorities reported losses among Russian troops and equipment, but didn't publish any further details. It was later reported that at least 10 Russian servicemen sustained injuries from the fire.[97][98]

On 30 August, Atesh partisans blew up the election hub of the United Russia party in Nova Kakhovka, a town located the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson Oblast. The guerillas claimed the blast killed three Russian soldiers and burned “all the documentation that the occupiers brought for the elections scheduled for 8 to 10 September”.[99]

On 31 August, the local partisan group ′Y′ claimed responsibility for another arson attack on a Russian base on the outskirts of Mariupol and reportedly damaged at least four Russian military vehicles.[98]

September–October

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On 7 September, a car carrying two FSB officers was blown up in Oleshky in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. The car bomb killed one FSB officer instantly and injured the other one severely, as well as three Russian soldiers escorting the car.[100]

On 15 September, Ukrainian partisans blew up two Russian army trucks by detonating an explosive charge, which according to them, was weighing 10kgs (22lbs). The attack happened in Russian-occupied Henichesk, Kherson Oblast.[101]

On 1 October, Atesh partisans released a video of freshly dug trenches and new dragon teeth fortifications near Feodosia in Russian-occupied Crimea. They also stated that they are forming groups, which travel around the peninsula and report every building effort of military fortifications to the Ukrainian intelligence, to make sure "a breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is successful".[102]

On 7 October, a car bomb killed Vladimir Malov, a Russian-installed official in the occupied Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka.[103]

On 23 October, Russian media sources reported the death of one Russian serviceman as the result of a detonation of an improvised explosive device in the occupied port city of Berdiansk.[104] Later that day, a spokesperson of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine stated "a local resistance group" was behind the plot that targeted a car carrying four representatives of the Russian FSB and called the attack "an act of revenge".[105]

On 27 October, former lawmaker and separatist official Oleg Tsaryov was shot on the premises of his home in Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. His condition was reported to be "critical" when he was rushed into hospital, but according to Russian official sources, he survived the attempt on his life. On 31 October, the FSB arrested a 46-year-old local resident, who reportedly confessed to the charges of attempting to kill Tsaryov.[106][107]

November

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On 8 November, Mikhail Filiponenko, a Russian-installed official and former separatist leader was assassinated in Luhansk. Ukraine's military intelligence directorate claims it carried out a "a special operation" in collaboration with local resistance fighters to liquidate Filiponenko. He reportedly survived a previous assassination attempt in February 2022, only three days before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Before 2010, Filiponenko was a local lawmaker for the pro-Russian Party of Regions.[108][109]

On 10 November, Ukrainian partisans blew up a Russian police car in Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine. No human casualties were reported.[110]

On 11 November, Ukrainian guerillas blew up the headquarters of the Russian military in Melitopol, killing at least three Russian servicemen. The attack took place during a meeting of officers from the FSB and the Russian National Guard.[111]

On 14 November, Ukrainian militants killed an unnamed collaborator in a car bombing in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast.[112]

On 15 November, members of the Yellow Ribbon resistance group placed the Ukrainian flag on the peak of the Boyka Hora, a mountain near Yalta, Crimea. There were similar reports in late August of unknown people hoisting the Ukrainian flag on top of the Shaan-Kaya mountain near Alupka, which is located 15 kilometers southwest from Yalta.[113]

On 21 November, Lt-Col. Oleh Shumilov and Lt-Col. Volodymyr Pakholenko were seriously injured when their car exploded in the city of Luhansk. Shumilov was deputy interior minister and Pakholenko a criminal investigator.[114]

On 29 November, local partisans coordinated a precision strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Yuvileine in the occupied part of the Kherson Oblast. According to media reports, the missile hit its intended target and killed five Russian police officers and injured 17 employees of the facility in which a meeting between the police officers was ongoing. The strike also killed Police Major Arthur Dzhunusov, who was the Russian-installed deputy chief of police of the town and the surrounding area.[115]

December

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On 1 December, partisans reportedly attacked a Russian fuel tanker and number of Russian military personnel during a pit stop in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. According to the HUR, the attack resulted in an unspecified number of human casualties.[116]

On 5 December, 24 Russian servicemen were reportedly killed and 11 more hospitalized after members of a local partisan group handed out poisoned groceries and alcoholic beverages in Simferopol, Crimea.[117]

On 6 December, a car belonging to a Russian-installed deputy named Oleh Popov was blown up in the city center of Luhansk. RIA Novosti, a Russian news outlet, aired reports of an explosion near the Avanhard Stadium, but didn't specify whether anyone was injured in the explosion.[118]

On 15 December, guerillas bombed a train, which was carrying ammunition and supplies in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A day later, local resistance fighters wounded a Russian officer in a car bombing in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast.[119]

On 17 December, members of the Atesh movement published the coordinates of alleged Russian anti-aircraft installations in an online post near Sevastopol, Crimea. This is part of a supposed larger intelligence gathering operation by the group, as reports of an infiltration at a Russian military base in Feodosia surfaced five days earlier.[119][120]

On 25 December, Atesh resistance fighters posted footage of an infiltration into a Russian command post near the town of Novoozerne in northwestern Crimea.[121]

2024

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January

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On 13 January, in Crimea, 46 Russian servicemen in Simferopol and Bakhchysarai were reportedly killed with poisoned vodka which was handed out by two young female partisans. Police were sent to apprehend them in a private house in Yalta and engaged in a shoot-out with the partisans, resulting in the deaths of three police officers and wounding of two more before the partisans fled the scene in a car.[122]

On 15 January, a car carrying four Russian servicemen was blown up in Russian-occupied Melitopol. According to initial reports, all four soldiers suffered injuries.[123]

On 22 January, the 105th anniversary of the Ukrainian Unification Act, activists of the Yellow Ribbon movement positioned a large Ukrainian flag on top of the Pakhkal-Kaya mountain near Alushta, Crimea.[124][125]

On 22 January, it was reported that partisans raised the Ukrainian flag in Makiivka, the third-largest city in the Donetsk Oblast, which is occupied since 2014.[126]

February

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On 7 February, members of the Atesh movement published footage and coordinates of a concentration of Russian military equipment in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine.[127]

On 19 February, agents of the FSB killed a man who was reportedly planting an explosive charge under the car of a Russian-installed official in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[128]

On 22 February, it was reported that six members of the Russian Central Election Commission died in Mariupol after having been poisoned by partisans. A month before, three Russian servicemen died and ten more were hospitalized after a partisan cell handed out contaminated beverages, also in Mariupol.[129]

On 27 February, a group of men triggered a police operation in Dzhankoi after a suspected infiltration attempt at a military airfield.[130]

On 27 February, guerillas blew up the local headquarters of the United Russia party in occupied Nova Kakhovka, Southern Ukraine.[131]

March

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On 6 March, Svetlana Samoilenko, an organizer of the 2024 Russian presidential election and the Russian appointed Deputy Mayor of Berdiansk was killed in a car bombing in the southern port city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[132][133]

On 10 March, Ihor Tsiferov, a collaborator from Dokuchaevsk, a small city south of Donetsk, was injured when his car was blown up in front of his house. Tsiferov was an employee of the Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which was involved in illegal abductions, acts of torture and other severe human rights violations since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.[134]

On 15 March, partisans planted an IED inside a trashcan in front of a polling station in the Russian-occupied resort town of Skadovsk, Kherson Oblast. The guerillas claim that at least five Russian servicemen were injured when the device exploded.[135]

On 17 March, it was reported that a woman vandalized a ballot box during the 2024 Russian presidential election by pouring green paint in it. The incident happened in Simferopol, the capital city of the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.[136]

On 22 March, two explosions took place in the occupied city of Melitopol. About 20 Russian soldiers were killed and two Kamaz tilt trucks and a UAZ were destroyed, according to an initial assessment of the Ukrainian military intelligence service.[137]

April

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On 1 April, Valerii Chaika, a pro-Russian collaborator and former employee of the local district administration was killed in the town of Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, when a homemade explosive device blew up his car.[138][139]

On 4 April, a car bombing targeted Maxim Zubarev, the Russian-appointed mayor of Yakymivka, a town in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zubarev was brought into hospital, where doctors described his condition as ″critical″, but according to preliminary reports, Zubarev survived the assassination attempt.[140]

On 17 April, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck an uncamouflaged S-400 missile system and a command post of the Russian Armed Forces near the airfield of the Crimean city of Dzhankoi. A few days before, Atesh guerillas shared the location of the complex in an online post, asking for immediate action from the Ukrainian military.[141][142]

May

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On 5 May, a Russian collaborator and employee of a local penal colony was killed when an improvised explosive device blew up his car in occupied Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Southern Ukraine. The Russian occupation authorities subsequently announced the start of a criminal investigation and stated that an unknown person planted the explosive charge on the underbody of the vehicle.[143]

On 20 May, residents of Yuvileine in the Luhansk region coordinated a Ukrainian rocket strike on a Russian military base.[144]

On 21 May, the local pro-Ukrainian militant group ″Ї″ set fire to a warehouse in the port city of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, which was used by the Russian Armed Forces to store construction materials and other belongings.[145]

On 31 May, a 40-year-old resident of Crimea stabbed two Russian military members to death in Alushta.[146]

On 31 May, a partisan cell claimed responsibility for an arson attack on the car of an unnamed pro-Russian collaborator in occupied Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine.[citation needed]

June

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On 2 June, a Russian serviceman posted a video in which he accused employees of a local shop in Ivanivka, Kherson Oblast of trying to poison him and his comrades with pills, which they tried to dissolve in Fanta soft drink bottles.[147]

On 7 June, Atesh guerillas guided a Ukrainian missile strike that targeted an oil depot in Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine.[148]

On 11 June, Atesh partisans published footage and the coordinates of a Russian makeshift ammunition depot and communication hub in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast.[149]

On 23 June, partisans claimed to have sabotaged a railway line connecting Mariupol and Rostov-on-Don by setting fire to a relay cabinet.[150]

On 26 June, Atesh guerillas claimed to have infiltrated another Russian ammunition depot on the premises of an abandoned farmstead in the village of Zakharivka, Donetsk Oblast. According to the partisans, the Russian military used the site to store artillery shells and announced that they handed over the coordinates to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.[151]

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On 6 July, a partisan group claimed responsibility for sabotaging a gas pipeline near Vynohradne, a small settlement on the Crimean Riviera northeast of Yalta. The alleged attack resulted in a large fire, which affected 4,172 square meters of terrain, and threatened to spread into a dry, forested area for a short period of time. According to the local Russian occupation authorities, the blaze left 12 settlements without any gas supply, and stated it would take 7 to 10 days to repair the damaged facility.[152]

On 12 July, Atesh guerillas claimed to have set fire to a dry field near Oleshky in the Kherson Oblast. According to the partisans, the fire quickly encroached towards nearby Russian military positions, severely burning twenty Russian servicemen and causing a chain of explosions when ammunition stored in the trenches was triggered.[153]

On 22 July, Ukrainian resistance fighters reportedly killed 12 Russian soldiers in Mariupol by selling them prepped watermelons, which contained poisonous substances.[154]

On 23 July, Atesh militants and local residents coordinated a Ukrainian air strike on a military airfield in the Saky Raion, Russian-occupied Crimea.[155]

On 30 July, roughly 56,000 residents were left without power and running water, after four blazes engulfed at various substations in occupied Kerch, Crimea. According to Russian media outlets, the fires broke out simultaneously in the villages of Bondarenkove and Osovyny, as well as at the 450 Block and Mount Mithridat substations, which are located within the city limits. The Russian occupation authorities stated that sabotage might be the cause for the fires.[156]

August

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On 4 August, members of the Atesh movement set fire to a relay cabinet in Donetsk. The partisans claim that the railroad, which runs through the eastern Kalininskyi and Budonivskyi districts of the city, is a vital supply line for the Russian military and mainly supports the Russian grouping near Toretsk.[157]

On 23 August, the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine, Yellow Ribbon activists launched a coordinated effort in the occupied eastern city of Donetsk, and spray painted the Ukrainian flag in multiple districts of the city, namely in the areas near the former Zaperevalna Mine, the 122nd Gymnasium, and on Antropova, Danilevsky and Hornostaivska Street.[158]

On 25 August, pro-Russian Telegram channels reported that pro-Ukrainian militants managed to enter a makeshift barracks of the Russian military near Simferopol, where they stabbed 18 soldiers to death. It was also noted that this was not an isolated incident on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, and that similar incidents happened near Sevastopol and Yevpatoria a year earlier.[159]

On 28 August, Atesh partisans reportedly set fire to another relay cabinet in Southeastern Ukraine. According to the guerillas, the railway connecting Rostov-on-Don and the Russian-occupied cities of Mariupol and Berdiansk is of high strategic value, since it would serve as the main supply line for all Russian troops in Southern Ukraine in case of the destruction of the Crimean bridge.[160]

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On 11 September, Atesh partisans posted a picture and the coordinates of a Russian S-300 air defense complex near occupied Chonhar, Kherson Oblast.[161]

On 21 September, Atesh partisans infiltrated a Russian ammunition depot in the village of Vyshniuvate, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A similar incident happened a day earlier, when guerillas from the same group entered a field depot belonging to the 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in the Starobesheve Raion, Donetsk Oblast.[162][163]

On 2 October, a car bomb killed Vitaliy Lomeiko in Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Lomeiko was a local judge, who remained in Berdiansk after Russian military forces occupied the city, and was involved in many cases of collaboration since early 2022.[164]

On 4 October, a homemade car bomb killed Andriy Korotkyi in Enerhodar, occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The victim served as the Russian-appointed Head of Physical Security at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and was involved in organizing anti-Ukrainian propaganda events in the city.[165]

On 13 October, Atesh guerillas destroyed a Russian reconnaissance vehicle by setting fire to it in Novokaterynivka, a rural town near Starobesheve, Donetsk Oblast.[166]

On 14 October, the local Ukrainian partisan group 'SROK' posted footage from an infiltration at a training ground in Sartana, southeastern Donetsk Oblast. The grounds were reportedly used by North Korean military instructors in order to prepare possible frontline operations of the Korean People's Army in Ukraine. It was also noted that the KPA instructors can operate in relative safety, since a significant share of the remaining residents in the municipality - which is home to a large ethnic Russian minority - were holding pro-Russian views and supported the occupation authorities.[167][168]

On 18 October, Dmitry Pervukha, a major of the Russian Armed Forces, was reportedly killed by an explosive while driving his car in the city center of Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine. The explosion, which was audible throughout the entire city, also injured a woman and destroyed the vehicle of the victim, as well as damaging two others.[169][170]

On 20 October, Atesh partisans sabotaged a railway line near Novooleksiivka in the southern Kherson Oblast, which serves as a highly important supply line for the Russian military in Southern Ukraine.[171]

On 27 October, Ukrainian partisans blew up a railway bridge in the center of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The powerful explosion targeted an overpass near a car wash on Skhidniy Avenue, which is located less than a kilometer north of the city's main station.[172]

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Notes

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  1. ^ In May 2024 in Poltava the local Lassalle street was divided into two parts and of these two "new streets" both of these shot teenagers Tigran Hovhannisyan and Nikita Khanganov had a street renamed after them.[91][92]

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