A report from Russia’s state-run Tass news agency, indicates that Chechen forces are withdrawing from Russia’s southern Rostov region and heading back to the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.
The Chechen forces were urgently deployed to the Rostov region on Saturday, tasked with squashing a mutiny by Wagner mercenaries who had seized the local capital Rostov-on-Don.
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But a deal was reportedly reached late that day to resolve the crisis, and Wagner fighters left the city shortly afterwards.
Tass quotes Apty Alaudinov, deputy commander of the Akhmat special unit, as saying his fighters are going back to the area around the Ukrainian city of Mariinka – the scene of fierce fighting in recent months.