This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar the Russians launched another powerful assault on Soledarthe BBC Russia service quoted her as saying.
“After a failed attempt to capture Soledar and a retreat, the enemy regrouped, made up for losses, deployed additional shock troops, changed tactics and launched a powerful attack […] Fierce battles are currently going on“, declared the Painter.
According to Malyar, the assault involved many assault groups formed “from Wagner’s best reserves” advancing with massive support from artillery, rocket launchers and mortars.
“The enemy is literally trampling on the corpses of their own soldiers, using massive artillery, barrage systems and mortars, and also covering their own soldiers with fire.
Our defenders bravely defend every meter of the native land.
Fierce battles are continuing right now,” Malyar described the situation in Telegram.
We remind you that in the morning the Ukrainian journalist who is in Soledar declared it the city is “fought”.
Russian sources wrote it on January 7th Russian forces managed to establish control over part of the cityeven over the “Artemsol” plant, and Russian units would “manage to advance through the center of the city.”
The representative of the self-proclaimed LPR Vitaly Kiselev states this on his Telegram channel The Ukrainians will soon withdraw from Soledar.
Soledar is a city where 10.5 million people lived before the war. It is located in the Bakhmut region of the Donetsk region of Ukraine and still has a few remaining residents. Beneath the city is a system of tunnels and tunnels that are part of the salt mines that gave birth to the city.
This small town has become an important strategic point, for the control of which the heaviest battles in the Donbas are being fought.
On January 5th a White House spokesman suggestedthat one of the reasons for attempts to capture Soledar at any cost was Yevgeny Prigozhin’s desire to gain control over the reserves of salt and chalk at mines in the Bakhmut region.
The Ukrainian command and British intelligence affirm this Russian troops were forced to weaken the offensive against Bakhmut and transferred part of their equipment and firepower to Soledarlocated 15 kilometers from Bakhmut, written on January 4th the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
