Overview
- Residents gathered on October 23 at the Brotherly Cemetery memorial to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame, with a mourning rally opening to the Russian anthem.
- Youth activists plan to hand out 2,000 St. George ribbons in the city, according to the region’s youth policy minister Yegor Logunov.
- On October 22, remains recovered near Novinskoye were reburied with military honors at the Line Wotan memorial near Melitopol following a religious service.
- Local military‑historical teams worked with the Zaporizhzhia Investigative Committee branch and the Russian Military‑Historical Society to conduct the searches and exhumations.
- Coverage reports conflicting totals for those reburied, with TASS citing ten and a RIA dispatch describing five while quoting officials referencing ten.