The Center for National Resistance was established by the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine to train, coordinate, and scale resistance movements to the occupation of Ukrainian territories.

The Centre said that “access to uncontrolled sources of information is blocked” in the Russian-occupied territories but appealed to residents to ignore Russian propaganda platforms.

Russia plans to complete the project in the first half of 2025, the platform said.

Recently, the Ukrainian press agency Ukrinform reported an increasing number of arrests in connection to Ukrainians’ activities on social media.

In 2014, Russia started the occupation of the Crimean peninsula, sitting on the north of the Black Sea, while Russian proxy separatist groups seized Ukraine's two eastern regional capitals of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Since the 2022 invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally claimed possession of four Ukrainian regions – Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk – after holding sham referendums in those territories in September 2022, despite Moscow having little control over these regions today.

According to the Institute of the Study of War, there has been Ukrainian partisan warfare reported in the capitals of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Putin has repeatedly told Kyiv that any peace talks require Ukraine’s full withdrawal from all four regions.