Up to 60,000 local residents remain in occupied Melitopol 

Іvan Fedorov wrote about this on Telegram. 

“More than half of the entire population of Melitopol was evacuated to the territory controlled by Ukraine or abroad. Up to 60,000 Melitopol residents remained in the city. Instead, the city and the district were massively populated by occupiers from the Russian Federation - Russians, Chechens, Ossetians, etc.,” he wrote.

According to him, to the east of Melitopol - in the Kherson direction - the invading Russian forces are evicting people from houses and building defensive fortifications.