Russian occupiers conducted raids in municipal service organisations and deployed mobile patrols with mobilised residents from Luhansk and Donetsk to search for men of conscription age and force them to enlist in the Russian army.
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Russian occupiers are searching for men of conscription age and forcing them to enlist in the Russian army
Mobile patrols and checkpoints deploying mobilised residents of Luhansk and Donetsk regions are operating in occupied Zaporizhzhia
Raids are being carried out on municipal service organisations to find men of conscription age
2,343 people fled Mariupol, Berdyansk, Polohy, Melitopol, and Vasylivka
Evacuees arrived by their own cars to Zaporizhzhia
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk provided the evacuation figures
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