Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said this on Espreso TV.
“In their propaganda, they talked about capturing new settlements, but this is fiction. We see that the number of Russian troops is increasing (in the occupied territories - ed.). This week, our residents said they saw new Wagner soldiers in Vasylivka, they came to Mykhailivka, and another batch arrived in the village of Myrne (7 km from Melitopol). They live like homeless people - in sea containers. Their number is really increasing in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region,” he noted.