Kremlin said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had held a meeting with army chiefs at the Russian operations headquarters in Ukraine in
Rostov.
The Kremlin added that Putin, Russia's supreme commander-in-chief, listened to reports from Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Army in charge of Moscow's operations in Ukraine, and other top military commanders and officers.
The meeting came after Ukraine, whose counteroffensive to recapture land taken by Russia in the first months of the war has been slower than expected, said it liberated a small village along the frontline, its first since
Last June, the city of Rostov witnessed the rebellion of the Russian private Wagner paramilitary group, which seized the city in a rebellion led by the group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and lasted for 24 hours, before ending with an agreement with the Kremlin mediated by Belarus.