Russian paramilitaries are thought to have captured a large swath of the salt-mining town of Soledar, Tuesday, following months of bloody fighting in the area surrounding the eastern city of Bakhmu…
, Tuesday, following months of bloody fighting in the area surrounding the eastern city of Bakhmut.
The town sits five miles northeast of Bakhmut, a city in the Donetsk province where bloody fighting has raged for months, even as Russian forces have pulled back elsewhere along the frontline. While the city controls a small number of regional supply lines, US intelligence believes that Prigozhin’s real aim may be the salt and gypsum mines in the surrounding area, many of which sit beneath Soledar.Soldiers of the 59th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire grad missiles on Russian positions in Russia-occupied Donbas region in DecemberThe oligarch has ties to several mining concerns on the African continent in countries where Wagner paramilitaries operate.
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