PMC Wagners Military Machinery Wrecks Over 107,600 Square Feet Of Roads In Rostov-on-Don

Military vehicles of the Wagner Group private military company (PMC) have damaged more than 10,000 square meters (107,630 square feet) of roadbed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, Mayor Alexei Logvinenko said on Sunday, adding that repairs will be completed in two days.

On Saturday, members of the PMC began to leave the territory of the military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don after Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's proposal to stop the movement of Wagner troops in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate the situation.

"According to preliminary data, more than 10,000 square meters of the roadbed were damaged. Budonnovskiy Prospekt suffered the most," Logvinenko said, adding that the repair work will begin on Sunday and be completed in two days.

The official added that the area outside the headquarters of Russia's Southern Military District, as well as the territory around the city circus and some central streets were cleaned up on Sunday morning.