"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 ...

Watch: Video shows fighting in Soledar, Ukraine, but the BBC has been unable to confirm the date these videos were filmed Russia's mercenary Wagner Group has claimed control over the town of ...

Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed its forces have withdrawn from Soledar, nearly two weeks after Russia claimed to have captured the city in the eastern Donetsk region. The decision was made to ...

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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 ...

TASS/. Ukrainian armed forces lost about 25,000 people in fights for the city of Soledar, DPR, says former LPR envoy to Moscow Rodion Miroshnik. "Ukraine paid an incredible price for the political ...