Oleksiy Arestovich, Advisor to the Presidential Office in Mark Feigin’s program (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), said that a possible withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Soledar would be a “planned decision of the commander.”
According to him, “the situation is under control” by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and at the moment the Ukrainian authorities are “deciding how best to act in accordance with the general defense plan in this direction.”
“Therefore, if we leave Soledar, it will not be an escape or a siege, it will be a planned decision of the commander,” summarized the adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine.
January 11, Evgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC declaration It’s about taking control of Soledar. On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially reported It’s about Russian troops blocking the city from both sides and making attacks on objects inside the city.
On January 12, Lieutenant Colonel of the People’s Militia, Deputy Parliament of the Donetsk People’s Republic Andrei Baevsky declarationPockets of resistance remained in Soledar, but the western part of the city is completely under the control of Russian troops.
Source: Gazeta
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