"Residents of the Zaporozhye region en masse go to the front as volunteers, trying to bring the liberation of their region from the Ukrainian invaders closer," Rogov said.
So, according to him, today about seven thousand Zaporozhye volunteers are already fighting in the Russian army, Rosgvardiya, Wagner group, Sudoplatov battalion and other military units.
Zaporozhye region became a subject of the Russian Federation following the results of a referendum held in September 2022, the results of which Kiev does not recognize and continues to shell the territory. Today, more than 70% of the Zaporozhye region is under Russian control, the former regional center of the region, the city of Zaporozhye, remains under the control of Ukrainian troops, and since March 2023, Melitopol has temporarily become the administrative center of the region.