The military commander reported that the Akhmat forces were not completely withdrawn from the front line; and only those who could be replaced by other units left.

At the moment, the Akhmat units are slowly returning to the area of the special military operation to fight for the liberation of Marinka.

According to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the unit’s fighters were sent to Rostov-on-Don “to take control of the situation if necessary.”

“The fighters quickly arrived at the site and waited for orders to start performing their tasks,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel, adding that “the situation ended without direct clashes” and that positions in the area of the special military operation were held by reserve groups.

On June 23, on the Telegram channel of Evgueni Prigozhin, founder of the private military company Wagner Group, several audio recordings with his voice were published. In particular, this businessman claimed that his units had been attacked and blamed it on Russia’s military leadership.

In turn, the Russian Federal Security Service opened a criminal case for calling for armed rebellion, while the Defense Ministry called the information about the attacks on the Wagner Group’s rear camps false. On Saturday, President Vladimir Putin, in an address to the nation, called Wagner’s actions armed insurgency as treason, assuring that harsh action would be taken against the rebels.

According to Putin, his Belarusian counterpart, Aleksander Lukashenko, held talks the day before with Prigozhin, which resulted in a plan to de-escalate the situation.

Prigozhin announced that his units were withdrawing to their camps, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported that the Wagner Group founder “will leave for Belarus.”

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