The Russian occupiers have been conducting covert mobilisation under the guise of "staffing volunteer battalions" and using it for war propaganda. Source: Ukraine's National Resistance (NRC) Details: The NRC said the Russians began to form an allegedly volunteer battalion, but in fact a detachment of contract mercenaries, the Donetsk battalion.
Moscow has threatened to seize all property and finances from Ukrainian businesses that refuse to conduct sales using the Russian ruble in occupied areas.
Dramatic surveillance footage shows the moment a Ukrainian security official who defected to Russia was assassinated by partisans as he drove down the street in occupied Luhansk