Russian troops digging trenches around Berdiansk airport 100 kilometers away from front line - Mariupol Mayor

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov reported the information on Telegram.

"There are already fortifications around Melitopol - from Berdiansk, Vasylivka and Kherson region. In recent weeks, the occupiers have dug trenches and set up "dragon's teeth" around the Berdiansk airport, 100 km from the front line," he wrote.

In addition, according to Fedorov, Russian troops are looking for people to build a defense line in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

• Earlier, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that the Kremlin had issued an order to establish 28 prisons on the temporarily occupied territories, including 2 penal colonies and a settlement colony.
• On January 28, according to the mayor of Melitopol, Russian forces brought 800 police officers from Rostov and Krasnodar regions, Russia, to Zaporizhzhia.