Russia is accelerating the development of roads in the occupied south. The occupiers are hastening the completion of a new railway and doubling the land road corridor near Mariupol, according to the "Center for Journalistic Investigations."

"Fresh satellite data indicate the complete readiness of two bridges on the first branch of the new railway, which Russia has been laying from scratch since last fall. Construction is in the final stages of laying the rails and is progressing surprisingly quickly. An 80 km new railway track between the villages of Burne and Novoselivka will allow the delivery of goods from Mariupol to the north and east of the occupied part of Donetsk region four times faster," the investigation says.

In parallel, work is being carried out on other sections of the new railway and highways, including the expansion of the land corridor from Russian Rostov to the occupied Ukrainian Crimea through the territory of the Azov region.

In April, the occupiers began to build a bypass road north of Mariupol. This 70 km long section of the land corridor can consist of parallel roads and railways.

Active work on the construction of roads continues not only in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions but also in the Kherson region. Journalists assume that the occupiers will build a Taganrog-Mariupol branch parallel to the Rostov-Melitopol railway branch.

"Then these 100 km between the cities will become the main logistics route for supplying the Russian army of occupation on both the Zaporizhzhia and eastern fronts. By tying the Kherson region to the Rostov-Crimea and Donetsk-Crimea routes, Russia will complete its 'Ring of Azov' logistics operation," the investigation emphasizes.