RESILIENCE AND COHESION OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY DURING THE WAR - Periodic report based

Specifically, according to the latest changes in the so-called “budget of the DPR”, almost 90% of the needs of the occupied areas were financed by direct transfers from the state budget of Russia. [...] As of August 2023, five dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) in the temporarily occupied areas have been re registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia: Donetsk and Horlivka dioceses in the occupied part of Donetsk oblast, Luhansk and Rovenki in Luhansk oblast, and Berdiansk diocese in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia oblast. [...] After the mee ting with Pasichnyk, he met with Yevgeny Balitsky, Gauleiter of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia oblast, who reported to the President of the Russian Federation about the full preparedness of the oblast for the “elections”. [...] In the new academic year, the Life Safety subject has been substituted with the Defence of the Home land in the curriculum of schools of the self proclaimed LPR. [...] >> EVACUATION On 6 August, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine announced the reopening of Kolotylivka–Pokrovka crossing point on the border of Russia’s Belgorod region and Ukraine’s Sumy oblast, which was closed after the onset of the full-scale invasion of Russia.