Russian troops are searching garage cooperatives in occupied Berdiansk - Deputy Chairman of the District Council Dudukalov

Viktor Dudukalov, deputy chairman of the Berdiansk District Council, shared the information with Espreso TV.

He noted that over the past 1.5  to 2 months, he does not remember 2-3 days without Russian searches of garage cooperatives. Russian forces checked some garages 2 or 3 times.

"They are trying to find centers of resistance, weapons, something related to guerrillas. Then they inform their so-called media that they have found a Banderites’ garage (banderites - Stepan Bandera's followers; according to Russians, anyone with a pro-Ukrainian position - ed.) with explosives, symbols of Azov or other armed groups of Ukraine. They do this for the sake of the picture, for their internal consumers, as if the liberated territories are fighting guerrillas," the official emphasized.

Viktor Dudukalov noted that Russian forces are afraid, and the filtration measures are the result of the fact that residents of the Zaporizhzhia region do not accept the occupation authorities and wait for liberation.