Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that on Monday, July 25, three large columns of Russian military equipment passed through the city towards Kherson.

According to him, Russian troops have been actively moving military equipment through the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine for three days.. Their column consisted of 100 pieces of heavy weapons..

Fedorov also stressed that Russian troops do not release people from the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region in order to use them as human shields..

The Russian occupation troops admit the possibility of their withdrawal from Melitopol and warn that in this case, all the city infrastructure mined by them will be destroyed.

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Since the beginning of a full-scale war, Melitopol partisans have derailed two armored trains of the invaders, destroyed the bridge between Melitopol and Tokmok, and ensured that the invaders do not feel safe on Ukrainian soil, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.