Invaders have turned Melitopol into one big military base

The Russians have turned the captured city of Melitopol (in Zaporizhzhia Oblast) and the surrounding areas into one big military base.

Source:  Ivan Fedorov, the Mayor of Melitopol, on Telegram

Quote: "The Ruscists have turned the captured city of Melitopol and the Melitopol district into one big military base.

Just over the past week:

• Convoys of invaders have been arriving in Melitopol from both Kherson and the temporarily occupied city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
• Fortifications are being built around the perimeter of Melitopol.
• Military personnel are moving into homes, schools and kindergartens that they have seized. Military equipment is being placed in residential areas.
• Civilians are prohibited from approaching the area around Melitopol airfield.
• Busloads of people from the self-proclaimed DNR [Donetsk People’s Republic] arrived at Melitopol’s School No. 22 today. Grad multiple-launch rocket systems were set up in the courtyard of the school.
• Kadyrovites [soldiers from the Chechen Republic who fight as part of the Russian Armed Forces – ed.] are operating in the village of Plodorodne; they have hung flags with pictures of their leader on them everywhere.
• Searches are being conducted in Mykhailivka and Zarichne; the invaders check the houses and ask if there are any men [hiding].
• Empty houses in the Pryazovsk, Novovasylivka and Olexandrivka hromadas are being broken into and occupied.
• In Kyrylivka, the occupiers have seized recreation centres and moved into them.
• They drove straight into the village of Sheliugy near Kyrylivka in tanks, moved into a kindergarten, and blocked access to the forest."

Details: Fedorov added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "know very well where the enemy is located and what to do to make them run away from the Ukrainian land."

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