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City battles in Soledar , no one controls him, said Mikhail Podoljak, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.
“There is fighting, very heavy and bloody, and no one has taken him, no one controls him. Unfortunately, even Ukraine does not completely control it. Urban contact battles take place here. In fact, there is no city there,” he said.
Previously, the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, made a similar statement. According to him, none of the parties controls the city, there are urban battles. However, he acknowledged that “the situation is complicated.”
Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov said that on the evening of January 12, Soledar was completely freed from the armed forces. Forces of Ukraine. The liberation of this DLR settlement is important for a successful offensive on the Donetsk direction and will also completely block the supply routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. According to Konashenkov, the next step will be to block and capture the Ukrainian troops that remained in Artemivsk.