Soledar, a small city in eastern Ukraine, is the focus of fierce fighting.
The small salt-mining city of Soledar in eastern Ukraine has become a focal point of fierce fighting, part of a broader push in the Bakhmut area that Russia sees as important to achieving its goal of occupying all of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
In Bakhmut, the Wagner Group has become the main force leading the offensive for Russia, and the fighting has become bloodier.
Russian forces and the Wagner Group are likely now in control of most of Soledar, Britain’s defense ministry said.
The tactics employed by the Wagner Group have resulted in a high number of casualties. In recent days, reporters for The New York Times embedded with a Ukrainian drone crew on the front line saw the bodies of Russian fighters scattered across open ground around Bakhmut. Images on Ukrainian social media in recent days also appear to have come from these aerial reconnaissance missions and show similar scenes.
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