The heaviest fighting is on the eastern front, as Ukrainians and Russians battle for the city with the salt mines.
Fierce clashes – with heavy casualties on both sides – continue to rage on the Solendar front in eastern Ukraine.
Yesterday, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner announced that it had captured the city, news that Russia was quick to deny.
Stunning drone footage from Soledar: Ukrainian combat medics evacuated an injured brother in arms on an armored personnel carrier — amid persistent enemy shelling.
Source’ @censor_net pic.twitter.com/icCP3c849i— Evgen Vorobiov 🇺🇦 (@vorobyov) January 11, 2023
Today, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Hana Maliar, announced that Russia is increasing its forces at the front, but Ukrainian forces are resisting.
“Clashes are fierce in the direction of Solentar,” Maliar said. “(The Russians) are walking over their own dead bodies.” “Russia is leading its people to slaughter by the thousands, but we are holding out,” said the deputy minister.
According to Ukrainian media, today alone, in a Ukrainian missile attack, at least 100 Russian soldiers were killed.
⚡️Ukrainian military says strike kills over 100 Russian solders in Soledar.
More than a hundred Russian soldiers were killed in the battle of Soledar after Ukrainian forces launched a missile at a grouping of troops, the command of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) January 12, 2023
Maliar also said the number of Russian military units in Ukraine rose to 280 – up from 250 one week – earlier as Moscow sought to take the “strategic initiative”.
Another senior military official, Brigadier General Oleksii Gromov, said the military situation in Ukraine remains “difficult”, with the heaviest fighting taking place on the eastern front.
“Russian forces are trying to break the Ukrainian lines and surround the Ukrainian troops,” he said characteristically.
Regarding the risk of launching an attack from Belarus, Russia’s ally in the north of Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Zelensky stated yesterday, Gromov confirmed that it exists and will “continue to exist throughout the year”.
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