Melitopol became the capital of the Zaporozhye region
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Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky signed a decree on the division of the region into 16 administrative units, Melitopol was declared its capital. Document published on website regional administration.
“To establish that the administrative and political center of the Zaporozhye region is the city of Melitopol,” the message says.
Melitopol, Berdyansk and Energodar become cities of regional significance. In addition to them, 13 districts were formed by decree: Akimovsky, Berdyansky, Vasilyevsky, Veselovsky, Kamensko-Dneprovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Melitopolsky, Mikhailovsky, Pologovsky, Priazovsky, Primorsky, Tokmaksky and Chernigov.
The boundaries of all districts and cities, with the exception of Melitopol, are determined by the boundaries of the administrative zoning of the Ukrainian SSR as of September 16, 1991. The boundaries of Melitopol are determined by a separate cartographic application.
On September 30, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions signed agreements on the annexation of the regions to Russia. Putin stressed that the inhabitants of the annexed territories “become citizens of the Russian Federation forever.” Referendums on the issue of joining the regions to the Russian Federation were held from 23 to 27 September. According to the results of calculations, 100% of ballots in the DPR and LPR supported joining Russia by 99.23% and 98.42% of those who voted, respectively, in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions – 93.11% and 87.05%, respectively.
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