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Train services suspended in most of Crimea after explosion at ammo depot
Russia’s presence in components of southern Ukraine is changing into extra tenuous as Ukrainian long-range techniques — a lot of them provided by Western allies — goal their provide traces, Ukrainian officers mentioned.
Ivan Fedorov, mayor of occupied Melitopol within the Zaporizhzhia area, mentioned the destruction of a railway bridge southwest of the town on the weekend had additional difficult Russian resupply routes.
Fedorov, who is just not within the metropolis, mentioned on Ukrainian tv that “the enemy makes use of Melitopol as a logistics middle for the transportation, trans-shipment of ammunition and heavy weapons. The enemy transports a lot of the ammunition by rail. On the night time August 13- August 14, a railway bridge was blown up. The enemy nonetheless can not restore it; the rubble is being dismantled.
“We see the migration of army personnel from Kherson to Melitopol. Army personnel take their households out of Melitopol.”
The Russians had stepped up safety in Melitopol, checking the native inhabitants, he added. “Mass filtering of native civilians continues in Melitopol, in folks’s properties, on the streets,” he mentioned.
Fedorov mentioned the Russian safety service (FSB), Russian reserve guards and particular Chechen items had been current within the metropolis.
As much as 6,000 folks had been ready in line for evacuation, he mentioned. “Individuals watch for 5 to seven days, spend the night time on the roadsides. It’s quicker to go away by means of Crimea, folks use this route as effectively,” he mentioned.
Kherson assaults: In the meantime, Serhii Khlan, adviser to the pinnacle of Kherson Civil Army Administration, informed Ukrainian tv on Monday that persistent assaults by Ukrainian forces on bridges throughout the Dnipro River had brought on severe difficulties for Russian forces.
“The impossibility of (the Russians) supplying ammunition permits us to say that if they can’t resolve the problem of crossing to the Dnipro proper financial institution within the subsequent two weeks, then they may haven’t any different alternative than to go away their positions,” he mentioned.
A considerable a part of the Russian occupying pressure is on the precise (northern) financial institution of the Dnipro, in Kherson metropolis and additional upstream. Khlan claimed the Russians had moved their command headquarters to the southern financial institution of the Dnipro.