The Russians have begun clearing the railroad track from the port to the train station in the temporarily occupied Mariupol.
Petro Andriuschenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, announced this in a statement, the CFTS portal reports.
"Given the existence of the Mariupol and Berdiansk directions, the occupiers have decided to use the port to supply weapons to the Volnovakha - Vuhledar line. The link will look like this: Mariupol port - Mariupol railway from the port to the Volnovakha railway junction. Optionally, delivery of weapons from Mariupol to the Berdiansk direction by road," he said.
As the CFTS portal reported earlier, Russia plans to turn Mariupol into a major logistics hub for exporting grain from the temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions. For this, it is demolishing the railway station and rebuilding the seaport. "If they succeed in implementing their plans, they will be able to use it to export grain from the occupied territories in the Donetsk region and Zaporizhia," Andriuschenko said recently.
The CFTS portal also reported that the Russians have illegally added the ports of Mariupol and Berdiansk to the Russian Register of Seaports and begun adding a section of the navigable waterways in the Kherson region to the "List of Internal Waterways of the Russian Federation."
As the CFTS portal also reported, the Russians are exporting ore from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories through the Mariupol seaport.
