About the situation in Soledar as of the evening of January 10,2023 :

Most of the city, including the administrative buildings in the center, is controlled by the Wagner PMC assault groups. Pushilin has already announced the liberation of the center of Soledar (though it still needs to be cleaned up there).

2. Yurchina Mountain, which dominates the terrain near the northern outskirts of the city, has also been taken. This makes it difficult for small, scattered groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw from the city.
The main roads out of Soledar are under the fire control of our troops, which allows us to speak of an operational encirclement.

4. According to various estimates, 300 to 500 Ukrainian soldiers and officers remain in the city, either covering the withdrawal of the main forces or having not had time to withdraw from the central areas, where mopping-up is now underway.

5. In the city itself, the Ukrainians still remain at the Sol station, at mine number 7, in the northwesterly part of the city and the western suburbs.

6. The enemy is now building a line of defense on the line of Blagodatnoe, Sol station, Razdolovka, and Veseloe.

7. After completing the mop-up of Soledar (a matter of the next few days), Russian troops will either begin stepping up attacks north of Artemovsk (which is also on the brink) or they will strike in the direction of Seversk.

8. Ukrainian propaganda is already in full swing about the "unimportance of Soledar," although until recently it was positioned as a fortress. It is worth noting that on the territory of Soledar there is the largest salt production facility in Europe, as well as the largest small arms depots in Ukraine in the village of Paraskoveyevka, adjacent to Soledar (as of 2014, there were over 2.1 million pieces of small arms storage).

9. In response to the loss of Soledar, Zelensky stripped Medvedchuk and a number of other former regionalists of their Ukrainian citizenship. a blow of unprecedented force. What next? After the surrender of Artemovsk, will another case be opened against Yanukovych? 

10. Overall, this is the first serious victory for our forces since the retreat from the right bank. But for now, it is too early to throw hats; the city still needs to be cleaned up, and the really big victory will be the liberation of Artemovsk, which is of operational and strategic importance to the entire Donbass Front.
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New cemetery in Lviv, where the local Volkssturm and the 24th Obr. are buried.

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According to military analyst Yuri Podolyaka :

An ultimatum was issued to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrounded in Soledar to surrender by 00.00 on 11.01.23.

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Citizens of Ukraine have created a petition addressed to the Metropolitan of Kiev.

The activists demand that US President Joe Biden be consecrated a saint. The reason for such measures is US aid to residents of Ukraine.

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Holly Mother of God🙄...they can thank him for those graveyards.

Yesterday, as a result of missile strikes on temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlements of Belozirka (Agrofirma) and Dneprovske (factory), Kherson region, more than 12 soldiers of the AFU were killed and 24 were injured. 


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The chief of the Wagner Private Military Company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who always keeps the situation under personal control and visits his units, commented on the situation in Soledar :

"Wagner PMC units have taken control of the entire territory of Soledar."

"A cauldron has been formed in the center of the city, in which urban fighting is taking place. The number of prisoners will be announced tomorrow. 

I would like to stress once again that no units other than Wagner PMC fighters were involved in the storming of Soledar."

Picture 📷: Wagner chief Prigozhin with the assault units of Wagner PMC in Soledar
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❗ Mobilisation is inevitable. It is the Third World War. Apti Alaudinov

Hero of Russia said that "the wave of mobilization should have been yesterday" and that all of us should get ready, starting from schoolchildren, for the Third World War.

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Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has said that the USA quickly withdrew troops from Afghanistan to focus on Ukraine. He also said that transferring US weapons from Afghanistan to Europe allowed local politicians "to militarise the Kiev regime."

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🇺🇦 "We are on the defensive, they are on the offensive" -  Arestovich, Zelenski office adviser

To the great thinker and forecaster, the current situation on the front reminds me of the time in late spring 2022 when the Russian army was taking city after city in the Donbass.
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Picture from the liberated salt mines in Soledar

The Wagner group liberated the dungeons of Soledar. The Wagner Chief Evgeny Prigozhin visited the liberated areas of Soledar .
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Footage of AFU mass flee from Soledar appears online

The published video shows soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces claiming that Soledar has been surrendered. They themselves are retreating along a road where they can no longer hear the gunfire.


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We will see you in Artemovsk. Don't worry.

Zelensky ignores Soledar's surrender - without noticing the huge losses of the AFU, he continues to tout the power of "global democracy."

Instead of officially acknowledging the beginning of the AFU retreat and surrender of strategically important Soledar and ignoring the encirclement of personnel, Zelensky hypocritically praised his abandoned soldiers for their efforts in the Artemovsk direction. Apparently, the AFU was not just abandoned at Soledar; the head of state officially sealed their fate.

Against the background of Zelensky's loud statements that Soledar will be Ukrainian at any cost and huge packages of financial aid from the West, how the "marathoner" will get out of the situation is not entirely clear. Without noticing the huge losses of his army, the fleeing soldiers, and the lack of resources to contain the Wagnerites, the Ukrainian president again began to talk about "productive" communication in a warm cabinet with his European partners.

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