Rosgvardyia units moved in and arrested and brutally beat almost 400 local citizens after they made peaceful protests against Russian occupation. While in Novokharkovka Rosgvardiya forces attempted to disperse a rally by using sting ball grenades and firing on the crowd with rubber bullets, resulting in one death. On March 21, it was reported that Rosgvardyia troops opened fire on a civilian protest in Kherson. in Chernobyl The National Guard was reported as having occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plants. On February 24, the National Guard together with Russian Ground Forces moved into the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, attacking Ukrainian forces at the Battle of Chernobyl. After Ukrainian forces withdrew, Rosgvardyia occupied the Power Plant. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that the Russian National Guard was running a "joint operation" with local workers and surrendered Ukrainian soldiers to maintain the containment operations of the Chernobyl NPP. in Enerhodar After the Battle of Enerhodar, Rosgvardiya occupied the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. in Bucha OMON and SOBR units from Kemerovo Oblast suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of Bucha. in Kyiv Chechen "Kadyrovite" troops nominally under the National Guard deployed in combat roles in Ukraine, fighting in the Kyiv offensive and the Siege of Mariupol, intended as a "psychological weapon against Ukrainians" and a vanguard force. Ukrainian sources claimed that the Chechen forces in Kyiv suffered "hundreds" of casualties and pulled out on 13 March from the Kyiv theater. On 28 September 2022, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and National Police of Ukraine published CCTV footage showing OMON and Rosgvardiya personnel shooting at civilians during the battle of Hostomel. Blowback in Russia On 25 March, twelve guardsmen from Krasnodar, deployed in Crimea during the "exercises", were fired after they refused the order to cross the border on February 25. The unit claimed that their duties were strictly limited to Russian territory, that they were not informed of possible "business trips" to Ukraine and since they did not have their passports with them, they could not enter foreign Ukrainian territory without violating Russian law. The guardsmen sued the National Guard for unfair dismissal and are appealing for reinstatement. According to their lawyer, Mikhail Benyash, after the case was publicized, almost a thousand National Guardsmen contacted him with similar cases. Mikhail Afanasyev, the chief editor of Novy Fokus in the Russian region of Khakassia, was arrested in April 2022 because the