Soledar

‘Don’t want Russian presence in our lives’: Ukraine town evacuates amid fresh onslaught

Fighting in and around Bakhmut has been fierce and grinding, particularly on the eastern side of the Bakhmutka river that bisects the city. But, in recent days, Russia has said its forces have made another push in the city, having taken the nearby town of Soledar

UN sends first humanitarian convoy to war-hit Soledar in Ukraine

UN said that the three-truck convoy had set off early Friday from Dnipro and was carrying food, water, hygiene kits and medical supplies for 800 people

Russia claims control of Soledar, Ukraine says fierce fighting ongoing

Kyiv dismissed Russia's announcement and said 'severe fighting' was ongoing in Soledar, an industrial town with a pre-war population of around 10,000 now reduced to rubble

Soledar capture will bring Russia nothing significant, says US think tank

Ukrainian General Staff usually reported the Russian attacks in Soledar before 12 January. On 12 January they only reported repelling Russian attacks against Sil in Donetsk Oblast, a settlement over a kilometre northwest of Soledar, but, not the town

Explained: The bloody battle of Soledar and where the Ukraine war is going next

The battle for Soledar teaches us a lot. Controlling the Ukrainian city will be a stepping stone to the much larger prize of nearby Bakhmut, one of the last major cities in Donetsk oblast that Russia has not captured

Volodymyr Zelenskyy promises 'everything necessary' to defend Soledar from Russia

Kyiv said earlier its troops were fighting to retain control of the now-battered industrial towns in the east, which Russian mercenaries claimed earlier this week to have taken

Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are using mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar in an unrelenting assault, struggling for a breakthrough after military setbacks have turned what the Kremlin hoped would be a fast victory into a grinding war of attrition that has dragged on for nearly 11 months with no end in sight

Ukraine says fighting to hold Soledar, but situation 'difficult'

Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed earlier this week its forces had captured Soledar, but the defence ministry in Moscow said fighting was ongoing and Ukraine denied any full takeover

Ukrainian military claims killing over 100 Russian soldiers in single strike in Soledar

On Wednesday the Chief of the Russian Mercenary Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed to have taken over Soledar. However, Ukraine has disputed the claim and said that fight for Soledar was still on

Fighting rages on in Soledar; Russia changes its general in Ukraine

Ukrainian officials denied Russian claims that Soledar had fallen but the Wagner Group's owner repeated the assertion of a breakthrough late Wednesday