Seaport in Mariupol being turned into military base

The port in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, is being turned into a military base and in the spring, the Russians can arrange the delivery of military equipment by sea.

Source: Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the legitimate mayor of Mariupol, on Telegram

Quote from Andriushchenko: "The occupiers are gradually turning the seaport into a military base. In late December, all residents of Mariupol were fired from the port (except for individual experts-collaborators) and workers were brought in from Moscow.

Work has begun on dividing berths into conventionally civilian and conventionally military ones. Due to the silting of the channel, only the vessels with small equipment, such as river-sea vessel RS3, can enter the port harbour area. However, this is not an obstacle to establishing the supply of military equipment in the spring shipping period.

For the time being, we are recording individual non-systematic entries into the port of RS3  [cargo vessel RM-3 – ed.] with building materials and containers with unknown content inside."

Details: In addition, Andriushchenko states that some workers from Mariupol were "seconded" to the Crimea in late December, after which connection with them was lost.

In the meantime, the occupation authorities ordered to urgently put men with Russian passports on the military register.

Apart from that, the movement of military equipment in Mariupol to the north of Donetsk Oblast resumed. On 3 January, numerous vehicles moved from the Berdiansk-Melitopol direction towards Mariupol and Donetsk.

Andriushchenko’s sources report a large accumulation of military equipment, manpower and helicopters before entrance to Berdiansk from the Mariupol Ring.

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