“On the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, liberated 268 settlements, including Vershina,” the headquarters said in a Telegram message.

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.