Russia said Friday its forces had wrested control of the war-scarred town of Soledar in east Ukraine, Moscow's first claim of victory in months of battlefield setback.
Local residents stand in a bazaar street in the small Ukrainian town of Borodyanka, some 60 km from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on January 12, 2023, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Ukraine’s armed forces have the situation under control in difficult conditions,” said Sergiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the eastern group of the Ukrainian armed forces. It could act as a bridgehead for Russia to develop its offensive for Bakhmut, a larger town nearby that Russian forces have been attacking for months.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War , a military observation group, said in an analytical note that Russian forces had likely already captured Soledar on Wednesday.
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