The Russian invaders are afraid that the Ukrainian military will come to de-occupy Crimea, so they are building up the defense of the peninsula, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. De-occupation is also feared by supporters of the occupiers in Donbas.

“Russian invaders are building up the defense of the temporarily occupied Crimea, in particular, building fortifications. 150 Russian conscripts arrived from the Chelyabinsk region to perform engineering work,"

Also, according to the General Staff, due to fears of the de-occupation of Ukrainian territories, the “city prosecutor” of Gorlovka, Donetsk region, resigned. He is preparing to evacuate to Russia.

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Recall, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is sure that the defenders will liberate Mariupol this year. During one of the interviews, he noted that he remembered most of all how, on the feast of St. Nicholas, he was taken aside by a four-year-old boy and asked if we could return the city.