The invaders are preparing Mariupol for defense: in the city more than 30 thousand Russians, the mayor

According to the mayor of Vadim Boychenko, under the guise of "renewal" of the city, the invaders create buildings that plan to blow up during the offensive of the Ukrainian military to accuse of this Armed Forces. Russian troops near the temporarily occupied Mariupol erected three lines of defense. This was reported in the press service of the Mariupol City Council. According to the mayor of Vadim Boychenko, there are more than 30 thousand Russians in the city.

Among them are not only builders, but also the military: "Cadirovka", boom and mobilized. Currently, as the mayor noted, the Russians have erected the defense lines in the direction of Zaporozhye, Melitopol and Donetsk. There, the invaders dig fortifications and put "teeth". "We see that through Mariupol there are huge columns towards Donetsk, Zaporozhye. They are filled with mobilized and weapons," Boychenko said.

According to the city authorities, under the guise of "renewal" the city, the invaders actually build fortifications for provocations. "They build these new buildings under the defense line and say that there is a life. We understand that it is fortification. When the Armed Forces will move forward, they will undermine them themselves and remove them that they built, and the Armed Forces destroyed," he added. Boychenko.