Ivan Fedorov, mayor of occupied Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, said the destruction of a railway bridge southwest of the city over the weekend further complicated Russian supply routes. Fedorov, who is not in the city, told Ukrainian TV that “the enemy uses Melitopol as a logistics center for the transportation, transshipment of ammunition and heavy weapons. The enemy transports most of the ammunition by rail. On the night of August 13 – August 14, a railway bridge was blown up. The enemy cannot yet restore it; the debris is falling apart.” We see the migration of military personnel from Kherson to Melitopolis. Military personnel are taking their families out of Melitopolis.” The Russians had stepped up security in Melitopolis, controlling the local population, he added. “Mass filtering of local citizens continues in Melitopolis, in people’s homes, on the streets,” he said. Fedorov said the Russian Security Service (FSB), Russian reserve guards and special Chechen units were present in the city. Up to 6,000 people were waiting in line to evacuate, he said. “People wait five to seven days, spend the night on the sides of the roads. It’s faster to leave via Crimea, people use that route too,” he said. Attacks in Kherson: Meanwhile, Serhi Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson Civil Military Command, told Ukrainian television on Monday that persistent attacks by Ukrainian forces on bridges on the Dnipro River had caused serious difficulties for Russian forces. “(The Russians’) inability to supply ammunition allows us to say that if they cannot resolve the crossing issue on the right bank of the Dnipro in the next two weeks, then they will have no other option but to abandon their positions,” he said. . A significant part of the Russian occupation force is located on the right (north) bank of the Dnipro, in the city of Kherson and further upstream. Khlan claimed that the Russians had moved their command headquarters to the south bank of the Dnipro.
