In a new video that appeared on social networks, you can see how Russian armed formations are transporting a huge number of fortifications to the district of the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region.

The more than two-minute video, which originally appeared on a local Telegram channel in Melitopol, captured a long line of trucks waiting to transport individual concrete bunkers and the already known “dragon’s teeth” fortifications in the Melitopol area. southern Ukraine, where the Russian army announced it had entered on February 26, just two days after launching an invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on Thursday that it had destroyed the Russian headquarters in the city, which had a population of 150,000 before the start of the war.

Last Saturday, a day after the Russian Defense Ministry announced the completion of the withdrawal of its troops from Kherson on the eastern bank of the Dnieper, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi promised that Kyiv troops would be greeted in Melitopol with the same joy as in Kyiv. the city of Kherson.

“The same will happen in Genitsk and Melitopol. We will come to all our cities and villages in Donbas. We will definitely see how people with Ukrainian flags, which they hold there, will greet the Ukrainian forces in Crimea, and on the day of liberation, there will be hundreds of them on the streets,” he said.

The Russians are building fortifications to try to slow down the Ukrainian army

Melitopol is located on the eastern bank of the Dnieper in the Zaporizhzhia region, now at a considerable distance from the front line in southern Ukraine. But it is within the range of HIMARS systems, which Ukraine received from the USA.

Last Thursday, the Russian occupation authorities of Zaporizhzhia warned that this region in the south-east of Ukraine will become the next object of Kyiv’s offensive.

“The Zaporizhia front is now becoming a priority. The enemy is moving here the forces it has concentrated around Kherson and will continue to do so,” one of the Russian officials, Volodymyr Rogov, told the TASS agency.

The “Dragon’s Teeth,” the small pyramid-shaped fortifications seen in the new video, were first spotted in October as part of a defensive line built by the Russians on the border of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic.

Later, other satellite images taken in November showed that Russian forces had also begun placing such structures around the city of Mariupol, which they managed to capture in May after months of heroic resistance by Ukrainian defenders.

According to British military intelligence, the installation of the “dragon’s teeth” is the latest evidence of a significant effort by Russian forces to prepare as strong a defense as possible behind the current front line to prevent the rapid advance of Ukrainian forces as during the catastrophic collapse of the Kharkiv front in September.

A separate set of satellite images released in November also shows that Russian forces have begun building trenches and other defensive lines, including in northern Crimea, with only southern Kherson Oblast, east of the Dnieper, protecting the peninsula from a possible Ukrainian offensive. .

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