Soledar nearly destroyed by Russian troops, Ukrainian army continues to defend (Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
Over the past day, Russian troops have continued to fire Soledar Donetsk region 86 times, now there is the most difficult situation on the Eastern Front.
This was announced by the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty on the national telethon.
According to the representative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military is doing everything to exhaust the Russian invaders in this direction.
“Now there is a very difficult situation, the most difficult on the Eastern Front. It is the defenders of Soledar who are now doing everything to exhaust the enemy, to minimize its offensive potential. So that even some of his tactical successes lead to a great pyrrhic victory,” added Cherevaty.
Bakhmut and Soledar remain the hottest spots on the front.
Occupation troops of the Russian Federation announced the capture of Soledar on 8 January. in the Armed Forces he denied the Russians’ reports of the alleged occupation city. This was stated on January 8 by Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar in town now «very difficult”but in some sectors of the Eastern Front the Ukrainian forces are gradually advancing.
January 8th Soledar was visited by the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Alexander Syrsky. He visited the positions of the defenders of Ukraine, carrying out combat missions in the Bakhmut and Soledar area, and discussed with the unit commanders the situation in these sectors of the front.
Soledar practically destroyed.
Soledar, about 13km northeast of Bakhmut, is another city in eastern Ukraine that the Russian military is reducing to rubble in an attempt to seize the city. Before the February invasion of the Russian Federation, about 11 thousand people lived here — six times less than in Bakhmut itself. From the very first days of a full-scale war, the city was constantly shelled by the Russians. Most of the residents have left here, and in April Soledar’s main enterprise, the Artemsol factory, the largest salt producer in Europe, stopped working.
