casualties in the war. ukraine says it launched the strike on a russian occupied area of the east and don yeske region on new year's eve. there's not much left this building once used by the russian army and mc keith. car. ukrainian forces attacked the site in the russian occupied city after noticing a cluster of my ball thing signals. the russian defense ministry confirmed the attack for the 1st time and a long time admitted significant losses. although that was an issue, the $63.00 russian soldiers were killed as a result of a fall messiah strike at a temporary deployment point. here, this is one of the relatives and friends of the dead soldiers of a being provided with all the necessary assistance and support it by the author. ukraine reckons the number of casualties is much higher. the ukrainian armed forces estimates that full 100 soldiers lost their lives. but if it federal, on the 31st of december in the settlement of mc, keith k, internet's up to 10 units of enemy, military equipments of various types were destroyed and damaged, who was at the losses of personnel of the occupy, as is st

dw correspondence roman gone to ranko, told us more about the russian attack on the ice rink in don yeske. well, so far we have contradictory points from the ukrainian and the russian side, ukrainian side saying that only the mostly that a skating rink was or ice rink was damaged, and one person was, was killed and are not making any details on other objects that were also hit and the russian officials are claiming that they destroyed at least 2 of the i'm, i'm us are rocket launchers and those are harmless. rocket launchers were used to, to strike the in russian barracks in mckee, if go on the new year's eve. and the russians also claimed that they destroyed some check military vehicles and ammunition people. so we have contradictory points, but we cannot verify them at this stage through early reports about more ukrainian casualties in russian unofficial sources, but nor confirmation of that. so far, roman, gone to ranko reporting that has a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. authorities in burkina, faso are investigating the deaths of at least 28 people from t

forces have been pressing for control of the strategically important city of google adar in the don yeske region. this on verified drone footage appears to show the aftermath of heavy fighting between ukrainian ad russian troops as moscow's forces make their advance into the city r t as roman coke or if centers this report from the front line. we are on the outskirts of the city of ogle the door. we are with the forces of the next republic, sir. interior and business free will try and get as close to the door as possible. fighting there continues, as russian forces have already gain control over the nearby town next to glitter the city of lazar is right behind me and you can probably see it's a heavy fighting continues right now as we speak at the moment. sir. there are 2 formations here. one is of the internal ministry, often as republic and the other are the marines of russia's pacific fleet. now, the forces at the moment are in the suburbs of lazar. there's no street fighting, taking place right now. la plan is according to my sources, is to execute a so called pincer movement, where t

ukraine, or according to officials that one man has been killed when ukraine showed the city of don yeske and the neighboring as f r o g region, a cemetery has reportedly been targeted by caves artillery, despite no russian military installation in that area. the russian defense minister, your force is forces of gain control over a sub about side, the strategically important town of solid, odd, and state that the ukrainian forces did suffer heavy casualties in the fighting. now, solar itself came on to russian controlled last week. theoretically, paving the way for an advance on the major city of our office, also known as back moot. earlier, the russian ministry of defense recognized the wagner groups. contribution in the battle for solar dot o senior correspondent visit is sola dot and met with a wagner fighters. i should warn you. you may find some of the following footage disturbing. ah, this is solid done. the city fell in just 2 weeks, or rather, was taken by the wagner, private military corp. the musicians as they are known. mm mm mm. you will need lisa, so it was lively, city 5 and

if he's in don yeske now he explains the strategic significance of sola that well then asked. and sir regards to salazar, came late on tuesday evening. we 1st received the news that the fighters of the wagner group are now in control of the sensor of the city. later we got news from precaution and getting forgotten and sell the head of the wagner group. that's in his units are now in full control of the city. not only that on roads to retreat for ukrainians are under artillery control of the wagner group as well. at the moment, a clearing operation is underway in the city where the soldiers are going from house to house, looking for the remaining ukrainian soldiers there. according to their wagner group, for a small number of ukrainian soldiers are now hold up and are in a coal drawn in the sensor or for the city. and we are waiting for the news where the city has been completely freed from ukrainian and nationalist. now the city of salazar is a certainly very strategic, very important for the next people's republic. now it houses one of the largest salt wines in europe. now p

yes republic including an advance on the town of martin as a suburb of the city of don yeske. since 2014, it's been a strong hold for ukrainian forces. and he's my dancy, i witnessed intense firefights in the area. ah, that was an enemy. multiple rocket launcher systems strike on might income. and that is exactly where we're heading. wow. or 24 hours in mud, inca began now here of flashlights. ease timeout to suicide. slowly, half blind. we stumbled to our temporary refuge. this is the bunker where we are spending the night here in modern co, relatively relatively safe. the previous occupants here were ukrainian troops who were literally, as you can tell by the wools burned out of here. but this is also the answer as to why the battle for marrying ca 5 gave kapinsky why these battles are taking so long . and that is because these bunkers are everywhere built over the last 8 years by the ukrainian military. built in completely nondescript places above us. this is just a small family whom a private residence of downstairs was unarmed store and the barracks for ukrainian soldiers

thanks rachel chisola. meanwhile, a showing of don yeske was reported on monday with at least 2 civilians reportedly killed a local journalist census. this report from the scene was the quote of sim dora. this is a tragic start to the working week for local residence. at 90 m, the ukrainian army fired 3 m l r's rockets at a peaceful city. this happened exactly at the moment when people were driving to work. there was maximum traffic on the roads, and there were many local residents on the streets and bus stops that emergency services are on the scene. the 3 story building was non residential. it housed offices, including a pharmacy, according to preliminary data, there may be people under the rubble, but according to the latest reports, at least 4 people were wounded in this attack on his what some locals told us at the scene. awful damn personal. it happened very early in the morning. i was sleeping at the time. i live here on the 5th floor, presently over one hello and i was passing a traffic like the 1st time it landed somewhere near by the 2nd time it hit the building. i tried to avoi