Entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC, confirmed the information about the capture of the city of Soledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) by Russian fighters. related explanation published Concord company.
“I would like to confirm once again that the Soledar area has been completely liberated and cleared from the units of the Ukrainian army. The civilians were withdrawn, the Ukrainian units that did not want to surrender were destroyed, ”Prigozhin said.
According to him, the losses of the Ukrainian side “killed” about 500 people. He emphasized that there would be no question of any humanitarian aid corridor. According to him, the fighters of the Wagner detachment began to “clear the mines.”
Earlier in the day at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported About the blockade of Soledar by Russian troops from two sides and attacks on objects within the city.
Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, announced a turning point in the “rescue of the entire territory of the DPR” – the capture of the city center by the Wagner unit – and the stopping of the attempt by Russian troops from the Armed Forces. Ukraine in Donbass.
Some Western media in your name Soledar’s capture “Adds salt to Ukraine’s wounds.”