Russian forces are building a new railway that will link the occupied cities of Mariupol, Volnovakha and Donetsk with southern Russia, according to a Ukrainian official.
Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the exiled mayor of Mariupol, said that the Russians “have started construction of a railway bridge near the village of Hranitne, over the Kalmius River. If successful, this will allow the existing Mariupol-Aslanove-Kalchyk-Volnovakha line to be connected directly to Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don.”
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Andriushchenko analyzed that if this railway is completed, it will allow Russia to transport military and civilian supplies to the occupied territory in southern Ukraine without relying on the Crimean bridge.
The bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland has been the target of increasing attacks by Ukrainian forces in recent months as they try to cut off supply lines to the peninsula.
The port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, located in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, has been under direct Russian control since May 2022.
It was in Mariupol that Russian forces carried out some of their most notorious attacks, hitting a maternity ward, a hospital and a theater where hundreds of civilians sought refuge.
The city became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance during weeks of relentless Russian attacks last year.
Famously, even when most of it had fallen, its defenders held out at the Azovstal steel plant for weeks before the fortress finally fell.
Source: CNN Brasil
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