Yevhen Balytsky News Today

Former Ukrainian Education Minister and suspected traitor Dmytro Tabachnyk remained in contact with some Ukrainian officials after 2014, according to an investigation by Toronto Television published on Dec. 18.

The occupation authorities issued the so-called instruction to ban activities of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) and social service organizations in the captured part of Zaporizhia region, the Information Department of the UGCC has said.

Yevhen Balytsky, the head of Russia's proxies in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, told reporters that the railway will run from Yakymivka, near Melitopol, to Rostov-on-Don via Berdiansk and Mariupol.

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told Newsweek Russian troops will kill Ukrainian collaborators once they are no longer useful.