The City Council of Ukrainian Mariupol reported this on Telegram, publishing a video from the city, Ukrinform reports.
"Movement of Russian military columns was spotted in the temporarily occupied city. Reserves are being transferred from the Berdiansk direction to the north of the Donetsk region. In particular, in the direction of Toretsk and Pokrovsk," the statement said.
Read also: ISW: Russians attacking Toretsk in Donetsk region to advance further to Chasiv YarIt is noted that the invaders continue to turn the Mariupol direction into a military base - they are building up forces in the city and surrounding villages. They are also replenishing military bases and laying a railroad that would connect the city with Russian Rostov.
As reported, guerrillas of the ATESH military movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars sabotaged the Rostov-on-Don-Mariupol railroad.