Russia seeks to take the city of Soledar and win the first victory in Ukraine in six months

Russia is advancing soldera strategic city in eastern Ukraine, to his first victory in the last six months, which he still has not been able to win due to the fierce resistance of the Ukrainian troops.

“I thank all our soldiers from solder who resist new, even more brutal attacks by the occupiers,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in a daily message.

Zelensky acknowledged that the defense of this citadel, located several kilometers from another important center of hostilities, Bakhmut, is “extremely difficult.”

“There are almost no standing walls left,” he concluded.

The fall solder will be the first triumph of the Russian troops in Ukraine since the capture of Lisichansk, Luhansk region, in early July 2022.

Kyiv wants to buy time

While Russia increases pressure on Ukrainian troops in solderKyiv does not give up and continues to use great resources to defend the city and thus stop the renewed enemy offensive in the region, waiting for the arrival of additional military assistance.

“Thanks to the resistance of our soldiers in solder we got more time and more energy to UkraineZelensky said.

“What do you want to win? Russia there? – he asked. “Everything is completely destroyed, there are almost no traces of life left,” the Ukrainian leader added, also mentioning the heavy Russian losses in this city.

A spokesman for the Eastern Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also acknowledged today that the situation in solder It is very difficult”.

“Throughout the day they beat solder 86 times with different types of artillery, so the situation there is now very difficult, the most difficult on the eastern front,” Serhiy Cherevaty was quoted as saying by Ukrinform.

He added that defenders solder they are doing “everything possible” now to “put on” the enemy forces in order to reduce their potential as much as possible.

Russia looks forward to a quick victory

Meanwhile, Denis Pushilin, acting governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which was annexed by Moscow last September, assured today that Soledar would be “liberated soon.”

“Events there are developing in such a way that the city will soon be liberated,” Pushilin told Russian public television.

Pushilin acknowledged that the advance of Russian troops was being achieved at a “very high price” and added that fighting was now taking place in the “western” part of the city.

At the same time, British intelligence indicated in their daily report that Russian troops and Wagner units may already control most of solder.

According to Russian military bloggers, the offensive in recent days in the area was carried out by these units, consisting of prisoners recruited to participate in the Russian military campaign.

“The Ukrainian Army is valiantly fighting for Bakhmut and Soledar. In the western suburbs solder there are bloody battles. FAA (Armed Forces Ukraine) with honor to defend the territory solder”, – admitted today the founder of the Wagner group Evgeny Prigozhin.

According to Russian sources, the fighting is taking place inside the city, which had about 10,000 inhabitants before the outbreak of hostilities, and in its environs.

Russian troops have practically surrounded the city, but Ukrainian troops still control its western part.

Other open facades

capture solder this is one of Moscow’s main goals, as its control will open the way for the Russians to Bakhmut, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, the main Ukrainian strongholds in the Donbas.

The strategic points of Kremennaya and Svatovo also continue to be at the epicenter of hostilities.

According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), it is in the Kremin Luhansk region that Ukrainian soldiers have made some progress in recent days.

Pro-Russian forces in Luhansk, for their part, have indicated that the artillery shelling of Kremennaya has intensified now that the attention of the whole world is riveted on solder.

“The battle for Donbass continues. And although now the occupiers have concentrated their main efforts on solderthe result of this hard and long battle will continue to be the liberation of our entire Donbass,” Zelensky said in turn.

According to Russian experts, in the event of a fall solderUkrainian troops will be forced to withdraw to Seversk and the direction of Slavyansk-Kramatorsk, where they will build a new line of defense.

(As reported by EFE)

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