Izvestia writes about this with reference to three sources in the industry.
According to the newspaper, an early launch can be carried out due to the desire to quickly return cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Frank Rubio to Earth.
On February 26, the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which is supposed to return cosmonauts to Earth instead of the damaged Soyuz MS-22, docked to the Poisk small research module of the Russian segment of the ISS.