Kyiv reported a heavy night of fighting but did not acknowledge loss of the mining town
The defence ministry statement praised a range of Russian military units for the supposed capture of Soledar, but did not mention the Wagner mercenary group that claimed to have seized the town singlehanded earlier this week.
“As for the direct assault on districts of Soledar that were occupied by the armed forces of Ukraine, this combat mission was successfully undertaken by the courageous and selfless actions of the volunteers of the Wagner assault squads,” the ministry added. Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, compared fighting for Soledar and Bakhmut – ruined towns set amid fields riddled with trenches and littered with corpses and destroyed vehicles – to the first World War’s Battle of Verdun.
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