Since the beginning of the year, the enemy has fired more than 600 times on the Zaporizhia region – the regional military administration

Since the beginning of 2023, Russian aggressors have fired more than 600 times on peaceful towns and villages of the Zaporizhia region, and there are wounded and dead.

Oleksandr Starukh, the head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration, named this figure.

“Since the beginning of the year, there have been more than six hundred shellings on peaceful cities and towns: four dead and seven wounded,” he said.

Starukh added that over the past day, the Russians shelled the Zaporizhzhia region 91 times, 70 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of 19 settlements.

The head of the region noted that the checkpoint in Vasylivka is currently closed, and since the beginning of the year, only two people have been able to leave on foot in the direction of Zaporizhzhia.

He also said that the aggressors are trying to ban the use of the hryvnia in the temporarily occupied territories.

The Russians introduced “passes”, without which movement between temporarily occupied settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region is prohibited.

Since the beginning of the year, as a result of enemy shelling in the Zaporizhzhia region, 4 people have died, and 7 more have been injured.

Oleksandr Starukh, the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, said: “Since the beginning of the year, there have been more than six hundred shellings on peaceful cities and towns: four people were killed and seven were wounded.”

According to the head of the regional military administration, due to severe frosts, the probability that the enemy will conduct reconnaissance by combat has increased more intensively.

In the village of Terpinya, Melitopol district, there was a unique, ancient oak-patriarch, which was more than 400 years old. After the arrival of the Russians in the area, only a stump remained from the huge tree.

The circumference of the trunk was almost four human girths, and the height of the tree was 40 meters.

Experts claimed that after the dried up 700-year-old Zaporizhzhia oak, it was the oldest in the region.

According to local residents, the occupiers cut the oak for firewood.

Russia’s invasion of the territory of Ukraine led to large-scale damage to the country’s ecology. Due to the actions of the occupiers, the protected areas were under threat.