A convoy of tanks, KamAZ trucks carrying ammunition and enemy personnel, as well as several Russian armored personnel carriers passed through Mariupol, accompanied by a warplane, and headed toward Zaporizhia.
In Mariupol, the city on the Sea of Azov temporarily captured by the invasion forces, the Russian flags disappeared from the flagpoles in Freedom Square downtown.
The Bayraktar strike drone, purchased for the needs of the Armed Forces with funds raised in a crowdfunding campaign in Poland has already been prepared for shipment to Ukraine. The UAV was named "Marik" in honor of Mariupol.
The so-called referendum on joining Russia, which is held these days particularly in occupied Mariupol, has an extremely low turnout. Organizers have to resort to certain conditions.
A number of Mariupol defenders returned to the government-controlled territory, having been released from Russian captivity as a result of prisoner exchange.
In the temporarily occupied Mariupol, Russian invaders have stepped up preparations for the sham "referendum", but efforts to create election commissions remain unsuccessful.
In the captured City of Mariupol, the Russians are hastily "reconstructing" the Drama Theater, which they bombed in March, in order to hide the traces of their crime.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights sharply condemned the intention of Russia to try the defenders of Mariupol in the city’s philharmonic hall.