The private Russian mercenary group claimed last week to have taken control of Soledar after days of fierce fighting.
On the Wagner group’s own news website Ria Fan, one of the group’s commanders says on Saturday that they will send around 20 trucks with dead Ukrainian soldiers over to Ukrainian-controlled areas.
Ria Fan is part of the media company of the Wagner group’s founder and leader Yevgenij Prigozhin.
It is not stated how many fallen soldiers there are, but the commander says that the Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in the battles for Soledar.
Ukrainian authorities have said that Russian forces suffered heavy losses in the fighting. But there have been no figures that it is possible to confirm, about losses on both sides.