The Berdiansk Partisan Army (BPA; ) is a Ukrainian underground partisan group operating in

Berdiansk Berdiansk or Berdyansk (, ; , ) is a port city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south-eastern Ukraine. It is on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, which is connected to the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Berdiansk Raion. The c ...

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. It has been involved in attacks against the

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On 27 February 2022, it became known that Russian army had entered Berdiansk. The next day, Russian soldiers occupied all the administrative buildings of the city. On 30 April, a video was posted on the Berdiansk Partisan Army

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demanding that the soldiers of the

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leave the city. The text of the demand was read out by three men with hidden faces with

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in their hands. The appeal was also made public by People's Deputy from the

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Yuriy Misyahin. On 2 June, in the port of Berdiansk, partisans tried to destroy the military cargo of the Russian army. On 6 August, the BPA staged an explosion near the captured police department, which the occupation authorities tried to pass off as the detonation of a gas cylinder from a cigarette butt. On 8 August, the partisans revealed that they had staged an assassination attempt on one of the deputy heads of the occupation administration. On 10 August, the BPA "declared a hunt" for the organizers of the

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on the accession of the

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. On 26 August, the BPA blew up the car of collaborator Alexei Kolesnikov, killing him. On 6 September, a car with the commandant of the city Artem Bardin was blown up, seriously injuring Bardin. In September, the BPA issued instructions on how to behave at the "

" on the accession of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast to Russia.

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