The small industrial town may be a strategic gateway for the Kremlin's forces to push further into the Donbas.
Prominent journalist Yuriy Butusov, who is embedded with Ukrainian troops in Soledar, wrote for the online outlet New Voice that Russian forces had established fire control over the main Ukrainian supply route to the town.
He cited new and fiercer attacks in Soledar, where he said no walls have been left standing and the land was covered with Russian corpses. Ukrainian military medics carry an injured Ukrainian serviceman evacuated from the battlefield into a hospital in Donetsk region. Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said fighting in Bahkmut and Soledar was "the most intense on the entire frontline"."They attack our positions in waves, but the wounded as a rule die where they lie, either from exposure as it is very cold or from blood loss."In an evacuee centre in Kramatorsk, one resident said she had fled Soledar after moving from apartment to apartment as each was destroyed in tank battles.
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