Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov said that the Russians, amid heavy losses at the front, are trying to promote messages about their " Fedorov wrote about this in his Telegram.

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As the mayor said, over the past few days, the occupiers have been spreading the story about the " They also talked about the capture of the settlements of Kamenskoye, Shcherbaki, Malye Shcherbaki and others..

Fedorov noted that the propaganda of the Russians pursued the following goals:.

- divert attention from the failure in the Donetsk direction;

- justify numerous losses in the Zaporozhye direction;

- sow discouragement so that residents stop waiting for de-occupation.

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Recall that earlier the head of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction, Yevgeny Yerin, reported that Russian troops were conducting reconnaissance in force in the Zaporozhye region and increasing the supply of weapons from the temporarily occupied Crimea.