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.[2]
On 2 June, in the port of Berdyansk, partisans tried to destroy the military cargo of the Russian army.[8]
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.[9][10][11]
On 8 August, the partisans revealed that they had staged an assassination attempt on one of the deputy heads of the occupation administration.[9][12]
On 26 August, the BPA blew up the car of collaborator Alexei Kolesnikov, Killing him.[13][14] On 6 September, a car with the commandant of the city Artem Bardin was blown up, seriously injuring Bardin.[15][16]
In September, the BPA issued instructions on how to behave at the "Rashist pseudo-referendum" on the accession of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast to Russia.[17]