Kadyrov: Akhmat special forces units ready to take positions of Wagner PMC in Artyomovsk. Head of Chechnya noted that he would like to take the remaining two kilometers through mutual understanding and support, and not at the cost of the lives of soldiers.

Earlier, Prigozhin said that the fighters will leave the city, handing over the occupied positions to the units of the Russian Defense Ministry. He also said that during the fighting in the NVO zone, PMC fighters destroyed 38 thousand soldiers fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army.