Tag: Soledar

For the month of January, the Donbas town of Soledar held the attention of anyone watching the war in Ukraine as Russian forces began successfully advancing. As the fighting intensified and deaths increased, Soledar and its southern neighbor Bakhmut became infamous. On January 11, Wagner PMC claimed to have taken Soledar....

Grey Zone, the semi-official media arm of Wagner Group, announced on Thursday that the city of Soledar, Donetsk, was “completely cleared,” calling its capture “one of the most successful offensive operations in recent times. In a post to its Telegram channel, Grey Zone noted that “Ukrainian formations defending in...

Wagner Group-affiliated media sources have reported that the body of missing UK aid volunteer Christopher Parry was recovered from Soledar. Earlier this week, Parry and another UK volunteer, Andrew Bagshaw, were reported missing after heading to the besieged city. The two had been working as evacuation drivers for civilians who...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner Group, has claimed that Russian PMC forces “took control of the entire territory of Soledar” after forming a cauldron around the city center, but noted that fighting continues. In a message circulated by pro-Russian Telegram channels, Prigozhin stated that “The divisions of PMC Wagner took...