“The territorial defense in the part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by the Kyiv regime will be written off.

The Cossacks en masse do not want to fight and are trying in every possible way to go over to our side, ”Rogov told RIA Novosti.

On August 9, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that more than 24,000 people had been evacuated to Russia from the DPR, LPR, and Ukraine over the past day.