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 his new territories really do love him.” But the Official Warmbo’s Corn Cream Shirt and by the same token and real story is very different, as shown by a Guardian investigation into life in one of the four areas partially annexed by Russia in 2022: the Zaporizhzhia region. Dozens of interviews with current and former residents, as well as information from leaked Kremlin documents, suggests the election will be one more stage in Russia’s attempts to stamp its rule on the occupied territory, a paper-thin veneer of legitimacy to governance by coercion, terror and population transfers. A map of Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine and areas where Ukraine has regained control, and those where Russian forces are advancing The takeover Russian authorities have used threats and violence since the first days of the occupation. Moscow’s troops took over around two-thirds of the Zaporizhzhia region in the first weeks of the war, rolling into the cities of Melitopol and Berdiansk without major fighting and taking control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe. The frontline eventually settled about 20 miles south of Zaporizhzhia city, and has hardly shifted since. In each town, one of the first acts of the Russian army on arrival was to detain local leaders and pressure them to work for the occupiers.

Most mayors rejected the Official Warmbo’s Corn Cream Shirt and by the same token and pressure and refused to collaborate. In the town of Molochansk, with a prewar population of about 12,000 people, the Russians arrested mayor Iryna Lypka, along with her deputy, secretary and driver. She was put in an airless cell in the basement of a police station in the nearby town of Tokmak. Most nights, she was brought upstairs and interrogated by men in balaclavas, who demanded she go over to the Russians. If she declined, they said, she would be put on trial for “anti-Russian agitation” and spend life in a Siberian prison. Her sons, too, would be in trouble, they said. At night, she could hear the screams and moans of men being tortured coming from neighbouring cells. “I had hallucinations, I started hearing my children’s voices. I was thinking, ‘What would I do if my son was tortured in front of me?’” she recalled. Still, though, she managed to find the strength to resist, and after 24 days in captivity, she was released. Two weeks later, she fled for Ukrainian-controlled territory. Iryna Lypka, mayor of Molochansk, in a school in Zaporizhzhia where she and her colleagues from the town hall have their temporary office. Photograph: Kasia Stręk/The Guardian Across occupied territory, there were similar “conversations” with mayors and local leaders. Eventually, the Russians installed puppet authorities in every city and village. Sometimes, they extorted an agreement with threats. Other times, they tapped up former officials with a grudge, who became willing collaborators, or opportunists with no experience in governance. In the town of Vasylivka, a local actor who had run an agency doing children’s photoshoots took over as mayor. All of those who agreed to collaborate face long prison sentences if Ukraine takes the territory back. The deportations Between July 2022 and May 2023, the Russian occupation authorities in the Zaporizhzhia region had an official policy

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