The mission of the first units of the Chechen fighters of the Akhmat special department in Bakhmut has begun ( Video).

Saturday, May 6, 2023. The first units to replace the Wagner fighters have arrived.

So it appeared at first, but their purpose was not to replace special operations in order not to capture the city or return Wagner, as it was wrongly written, on Western media but to clear the last two pockets of resistance to free Russian troops (basically VDV airborne forces ) and then get involved in the battle for the occupation of Sloviansk.

The Chechens, clearly of more excellent fighting value than Wagner's tired mercenary corps, which grew in number, following the tactics of the French "Foreign Legion" with the inclusion of even those convicts who wanted to redeem their sentence with a six-month term in it, but they were unable to bring the corps up to the combat levels of the original Wagner number of 5,000 men.

After all, the most experienced Wagner operate simultaneously in Syria, Libya, Mali, Sudan, and the Central African Republic, the security services in the governments there.

After all, Wagner did not have time at her disposal to train 40,000 men for such intensive military operations:

After two weeks of high-speed training, they were sent to Bakhmut and Soledar, hence their significant losses.

The Chechens will "clear" Bakhmut and take on the difficult task of capturing the Ukrainian stronghold of Chasiv Yar and the other pillar of the Vuhledar region.

They have already been deployed in Seversk.

The first 7,000 fighters will be followed by an additional 15,000 from an armed force of 40,000 Chechens that Russia can deploy at this stage.

"Our troops are ready to move in towards Buckhmut. I have already signed a corresponding letter to the Commander-in-Chief about my readiness to return to the city and clean it from NATO and Ukrainian satanists with the forces of my units.

The soldiers are on alert; we're just waiting for orders. Several units have already started towards the execution of SMO.

I am sure that shortly, we will liberate the city, despite the terrible Ukrainian counterattack.

We have already begun to develop our strategic action in this area, together with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, taking into account the tactics of the enemy and the resources at our disposal. And believe me, the tactic will give positive results.

The order of the Supreme Commander will be executed in any case!'

Update:

In a matter of a few days, the replacement of Wagner's volunteer soldiers with war-ready and fresh Chechens.

The letter sent by the head of the Wagner organization, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to the Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shoigu, with a request to hand over the organization's positions in Bakhmut to the Chechens, was made public.

In this letter, he states that "we accept Ramzan Kadyrov and his forces who fought bravely in Mariupol and other areas to replace Wagner's forces," stressing that the change must have occurred by midnight on May 10, 2023.

Yesterday the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, said, "Our fighters are ready to advance and occupy the city. It's a matter of hours.

But I would like us to capture the remaining two kilometers of the city, not at the cost of the soldiers' lives, but as a result of mutual understanding, the support of the administration, and the fighters who will fulfill the order of the supreme commander of Russia, Vladimir Putin."

⚡️#BREAKING "Akhmat" is ready to advance to Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), several units have already set off in the direction of conducting a military defence — Kadyrov pic.twitter.com/h4uiXTBxEq

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) May 6, 2023 

Chechen warriors, highly trained and disciplined, are credited with the great success of taking Mariupol, with a population many times that of Bakhmut, in just three months.

After all, the Chechens are of much higher fighting value than Wagner's volunteer corps, now numbering 40,000 men, and have a different fighting value than when they were an elite volunteer corps of 5,000 soldiers. 

⚡️#BREAKING Yevgeny Prigozhin publishes an appeal to Sergei Shoigu with a request to issue a combat order on the transfer of the positions of PMC "Wagner" to units of the battalion "Akhmat" in Bakhmut before 00 hours on May 10. pic.twitter.com/97J8Cu8aOE

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) May 6, 2023 

According to information, the Russian central command sent eight reinforced Battalions of Chechen fighters of the "Ahmat" corps totaling 7,000 men to Bakmut to replace Wagner's overworked volunteer corps.