Russians try to build a new railway branch in the occupied territories (maps)
This was reported by Russian propagandists with reference to the so -called "Minister of Economic Development" of Zaporizhzhya region Yuri Guskov, writes the Center for Journalistic Research. The pseudo -Minister stressed that the railway plans to pass through the Zaporizhzhya region, the territory of the DNR coast of the Azov Sea and to tie the Melitopol knot and Berdyansk with access to Rostov.
However, it turned out that in reality it is not a projection, but the beginning of work, since the construction of a railway bridge across the river Kalmius near the village of Granitne is already underway. Experts of the Center for Investigation Center found satellite images of Sentines-2 as of September 25, which not only shows the area of the Kalmius River 2 kilometers south of the village of Granitne, where the construction of the railway bridge was deployed.
The construction line also goes to the left bank of the river to the outskirts of the village of Staromaryivka, to the north of it. "Three kilometers from Granite is a Telman's quarry, from which the railway track begins with the railway Mariupol - Volnovakha. There is a direct railway connection with Melitopol and (through Chongar) with Crimea," the journalists say.
Analyzing the data on the railway connection in the region, the research journalists concluded that the occupiers are enough to build a not too large railway between the granite and separate in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region. "There is no data on the construction of the railway outside the plot near the granite. The distance between the granite and the Taganrog is more Further to Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don, "-experts summed up.
Israeli military and editor of the military heading Igal Levin stressed that the construction of a new railway branch that has unfolded is important news. "With this branch, the Russians will significantly improve military logistics and reduce the dependence of the occupied south of Ukraine on deliveries through the Kerch Bridge . . . I am sure that GUR and SBU already has plans for this great construction," he said.
We will remind that the focus on the morning of September 27 wrote about a new railway track, which can allow the Russians to include the existing branch "Mariupol-Aslan-Kalchyk-Volnovakha" in a direct connection with Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don with reference to the advisor of Mayor Mariupol. Andryushchenko noted that the railway connection from the Volnovakha to the west is coming through a branch - Melitopol to the Crimea, and in the north - to Donetsk.