A battle for Soledar, a Ukrainian salt mining town, is intensifying as Russian officials claim the town is under their control.
A battle for Soledar, a salt mining town in Ukraine, is intensifying as Russian officials claim they have the town under control.on Wednesday as Russian leaders claimed the crucial city in the hotly contested Donetsk region would be overrun by week's end.
Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said the group's troops controlled the city and were clearing out the last of the Ukrainian fighters. The salt mining town of about 10,000 people a year ago is nearly deserted now, most of its buildings damaged or destroyed by the fighting.for Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces to press toward key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk province, which Putin has already claimed to annex.
Russia's Defense Ministry announced the demotion of the head of Russian forces in Ukraine. The chief of the military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, was named to replace Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was demoted to deputy, along with two other generals. In an interview with USA TODAY, Reed said the longer-range missile could only be provided if Ukraine agreed not to attack Russia with it, a move that could escalate the war and prompt Putin to strike a NATO country.
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Russian forces 'far from' capturing Bakhmut despite Soledar advances—ISWThe U.S.-based think tank assessed that despite recent advances in Soledar, Russian forces had not yet fully captured the town, located north of Bakhmut.
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