After the appointment of Ivan Fedorov to the position of the head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration, Fedorov had to answer the accusations of the "surrender" of Melitopol.
During the press conference on February 8, 2024, journalists stated that Ivan Fedorov is often accused in social networks of the alleged surrender of Melitopol and Zaporizhzhia. "If I were to go back to February 24 today and answer the question, would the team and I have done differently than we did then, I have an absolutely accurate answer - yes. Because at that moment we did not expect that the enemy would need only 8 hours to get from Crimea to Melitopol. No one expected that we would have difficulties with blowing up the bridges in Chongar and in Melitopol with three more bridges. No one expected that at 4 p.m. the last soldier would leave the city of Melitopol, and the security forces would leave even earlier. At that time we were inexperienced. But despite this, my team and I did not leave the city and stayed with the residents as much as we could," said Fedorov.
At the same time, the journalists of NENKA INFO publication in the material: " Ivan Fedorov: "fake" capture, corruption and "Russian" fortune teller. To whom the OP entrusted the protection of the Zaporizhzhia region " cites facts from the biography of Ivan Fedorov, which may testify to Fedorov's cooperation with the occupying forces of the Russian Federation during his stay in occupied Melitopol.
It is worth noting that the reference to the materials of the journalistic investigation of the NENKA INFO publication, Ivan Fedorov's team removed from the official's Wikipedia , and the corresponding screenshots were preserved.
