 Russia deploys special forces to deter deserters from front. Russia has sent 200 police officers from the Akhmat Special Operations Regiment to the Bakhmut Front where intense fighting continues in order to deter deserters. About it announced General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook. General Staff has said, forced mobilization is continuing in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation. Up to 200 police officers were from the Akhmat Special Operations Regiment were deployed on the Bakhmut Front on the 23rd of February to prevent mobilized soldiers from potentially deserting the front or conducting acts of sabotage. A Russian Marine who lived through recent fighting in Volodar said that survivors are being treated like deserters. The Marine, part of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, told Russian media to outlet 7 plus 7 that it would have been better if I had been captured and never returned. Fighting has been raging over the eastern Ukrainian town for months, with renewed efforts to capture it launched by Russia at the end of January. The unnamed Marine told 7 plus 7 that his brigade joined the fighting on January the 23rd. He estimated that around 500 people in the brigade had been killed with just 8 left alive in one of its companies. The Marine added that so many people in his unit were being killed that new ones were always brought up. Olexii Dmytreskivsky, head of the United Press Center of the Tavrisky District of Ukrainian Defense Forces told that almost the entire brigade of 5,000 had been destroyed near Volodar with troops killed, wounded or taken prisoner. This accelerates the escape of Russian soldiers from the front and punitive detachments are sent to prevent them.