“There is movement along Seversk, which is blocked from at least three sides, and the destruction of the main fortifications by artillery preparation just continues,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Akhmat special forces soldiers had taken a strategically important position near Seversk.
On August 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the allied forces had taken control of the settlement of Peski in the DPR.