"At the moment, there are still some small pockets of resistance in Soledar," Andrei Bayevsky, a Russian-installed local politician, said in an online broadcast. Ukraine has acknowledged Russian ...

Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that airborne units had cut off Soledar from the north and south. But Ukraine denied that the town, with a pre-war population of around 10,000 ...

Russia's defence ministry says its forces are taking part in the battle for Soledar, a town north of Bakhmut in east Ukraine which has been the focus of recent fighting. It comes after the head of ...

The Russian private military company Wagner said it had seized the nearby town of Soledar, a claim Ukraine denied. Photo: Maxar Technologies ...

TASS/. The liberation of the city of Soledar makes it possible to put under operational control the areas from which Ukraine’s armed forces carried out strikes, the acting head of the Donetsk ...

Viktor Vodolatsky said that Ukraine’s exact losses remained unknown ... About half of those fighting on the Ukrainian side near Soledar, in the Donetsk People's Republic, are foreign mercenaries ...

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