The financier of the mercenaries fighting for Moscow Yevgeny Prigozhin is taking all the credit for gains in the Donetsk oblast city fought over for months.
Although it was too soon to tell if Soledar had been captured entirely, one milblogger claimed that Russian troops had advanced as far as Krasnopillia, which lies around two and a half miles northwest and that"the Ukrainian grouping in Bakhmut is under threat of encirclement as a result."
A man pushes his bicycle down a street in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on January 6, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Institute for the Study of War said on January 6, 2023 that Wagner Group mercenaries fighting for Moscow had broken through the nearby city of Soledar.However, the ISW said in its daily update that it had"not yet observed visual information that corroborates these Russian claims.
Wagner Group financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin emphasized it was"exclusively" his troops who had made these purported gains although talk of the total capture of Soledar was"premature,"Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries for comment.'s January 5 ceasefire announcement which was followed by continuing hostilities.
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