“We need to liberate the entire settlement [of Maryinka] in the foreseeable future. The advance there takes place literally daily, but not so fast... [The liberation of the city] is very important in strategic terms, in terms of moving toward the next localities," Pushilin said.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said Chechen units had received an order to redeploy forces, their area of responsibility will be the DPR; the Akhmat special forces and the Sever-Akhmat regiment were deployed to the Maryinka sector.
The day before, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that assault detachments of the 5th motorized rifle brigade and soldiers of the Akhmat special forces detachment were successfully advancing in the Maryinka sector.