Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told Newsweek that Russian forces are digging in around his native city ahead of an expected counter-offensive.
, because we need to destroy their delivery routes and their connections between Crimea, Russia and the Zaporizhzhia region," he said.
Recent commitments by the U.S., Germany, and France to provide new infantry fighting vehicles—Bradleys, Marders, and AMX-10 RCs, respectively—are encouraging, Fedorov said."All of us hope that tanks and ATACMS will be next," the mayor added, referring to the longest-range munitions available for NATO-supplied multiple launch rocket systems, including the American HIMARS.Liberating the Zaporizhzhia region will be no easy task.
"Our soldiers will never shoot civilians or citizens. But all of us understand that for Russian troops, civilian lives cost zero. We all understand that the Russians can do anything they want and destroy everything." A Russian serviceman walks near the site of a car bomb explosion outside a building housing a local TV station in the Russian-held city of Melitopol in southern Ukraine on October 25, 2022. Local partisans have been conducting a guerrilla campaign against the occupation authorities.Fedorov said more than 750 children have been taken from the Melitopol area to Russia in recent months, with no indication of whether they will be returned.
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