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Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Moscow, said: “Soledar, according to the Russians, has fallen to their hands, and this is going to be a big push for them to try to take Bakhmut.”
A member of Ukraine’s military looks away as a BM-21 “Grad” MLRS 122mm rocket launcher fires on the outskirts of Soledar, Ukraine, on Jan.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/18/russia-wagner-group-ukraine-paramilitary-00083553
And it’s entirely possible that Mr. Prigozhin sees some economic benefit to him and his company to take Bakhmut and to take and hold Soledar.”
Bakhmutske and Soledar are two villages also in Donesk region in Ukraine’s east and Russia claimed capturing them in January.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/before-after-photos-ukraine-war-russia-b2288203.html
Despite the “difficult situation,” Ukrainian soldiers are desperately battling for control of Soledar, Maliar said.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, told reporters that Russian forces had achieved “good dynamics in advancing” in Soledar but refrained from officially announcing the control of the municipality.
He did not mention Soledar.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-map-soledar-putin-b2260735.html
He didn’t mention the Wagner Group, which previously took credit for capturing Soledar.
In January, Russia made its first gain in months, capturing the small town of Soledar.
“Now the terrorist state and its propagandists are trying to pretend that some part of our city of Soledar – a city almost completely destroyed by the occupiers – is allegedly some kind of Russia’s achievement.”
Pro-Russian channels reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces made no significant progress in the Zaporizhzhia, Soledar, and Donetsk directions over the past 24 hours.
Source: https://worldcrunch.com/focus/ukraine-counteroffensive-pause-russia-analyst
Russia’s renewed air attacks came as fierce fighting raged in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province, where the Russian military has claimed it has control of the small salt-mining town of Soledar, although Ukraine asserts that its troops are still fighting.
Soledar is located in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, one of four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in September.
Soledar, known for salt mining and processing, has little intrinsic value but it lies at a strategic point 6 miles north of the city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces want to surround.
Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/01/11/battle-rages-in-ukraine-mining-town-russia-replaces-general/
“The capture of Soledar was made possible by the constant bombardment of the enemy by assault and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of a grouping of Russian forces,” it said.
The mercenaries, made up of contractors and recruited convicts, have battled to take the town of Soledar, a salt-mining town, and is currently involved in a casualty-heavy fight for the town of Bakhmut, also in the Donetsk region.
The organization's fighters have participated in Russia's escalated attacks in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Bakhmut and Soledar.
The Ukrainian town of Soledar, home to salt mines is close to falling, despite intense fighting.
Ukraine claims to have killed more than 100 Russian troops in a coordinated strike during the brutal frontline battle to control the town of Soledar in yet another devastating setback for Vladimir Putin.
Volunteers Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were helping with civilian evacuation and humanitarian efforts when they vanished near Soledar.