In Mariupol, Russian invaders are gradually turning the seaport into a military base. This was announced by the adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko.

According to him, at the end of December, all Mariupol residents were fired from the port, with the exception of individual collaborators. The occupiers brought workers from the Russian Federation.

In addition, the invaders began to work on dividing the berths into conditionally civilian and conditionally military. Due to the silting of the canal, ships with small equipment, such as the RM3 river-sea class, can still enter the port water area.

However, this is not an obstacle to establishing the supply of military equipment in the spring, notes the mayor's adviser.. So far, there have been single non-system calls to the port of PM3 with building materials and containers of unknown content.

Also, according to Andryushchenko, part of the Mariupol workers were “seconded” to Crimea in the third decade of December. After that, the connection with them disappeared, even their loved ones do not know where they are..

“At best, in the construction of trenches. At worst, in the same trenches without consent and warning,” notes the mayor’s adviser..

In addition, he spoke about the resumption of the movement of military equipment of the Russian Federation in the direction of the north of the Donetsk region..

Yesterday, on January 3, a tendency was recorded for the reverse movement of a large number of Russian equipment along the Berdyansk-Melitopol direction towards Mariupol and Donetsk.

It is also reported about a large accumulation of military equipment, manpower and helicopters of the Russian Federation before entering Berdyansk from the Mariupol ring.

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Earlier, Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, reported that the activity of the enemy army in the temporarily occupied city had recently increased significantly.