“I can say with confidence that the guys from this regiment had a lot of manifestations of courage and real heroism!”
— he wrote in Telegram.
Pushilin said that servicemen who had come under fire in Makiivka were rescuing injured comrades from under the rubble.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the main reason for the death of Russian servicemen in Makeevka is the use of mobile phones, whose signals were able to locate the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The death toll of the Russian military as a result of a strike by Ukraine on the settlement of Makeevka has risen to 89.