american institute for the study of war notes in its review that the founder of the wagner pvk, yevgeny prigozhyn, uses the battles in soledar to strengthen the authority of mercenaries. sources about the kremlin and about the military talked about the fact that the forces of the wagner group may soon surround bakhmut at the institute for the study of war came to the conclusion that prigozhin uses, as confirmed, also fabricated information in order to strengthen the authority of wagner as the most effective and fighting force in the entire russian army. well, what is happening right now in the bakhmut direction, in particular in the cities of soledar and bakhmut, we will find out later, the company commander joins the broadcast of the freedom battalion yevhen oropai good evening good evening studio good evening tv viewers glory to ukraine, the day went smoothly in the direction of, well, restless constant precipitation constant shelling enemy tanks came out several times, our positions were constantly fired upon, the boots flew in, crazy orcs flew out, fired rpgs, the tents worked, that is, the d

in the ukrainian defense on this part of the front last night, the founder of the wagner pvk, yevgeny prigozhyn, said that the mercenary units took control of the entire territory of prigozhyn's saudar even published photos of the alleged soledar salt mines in the department of strategic communications of the armed forces of ukraine, these photos were called an information and psychological operation, they said that the photo was taken not in the soledar mines, but in a cave in the volodymyrivka area of ​​the donetsk region, which is controlled by the leaders of the dpr group. moscow also does not officially confirm prigozhin's report about capture of soledar the ministry of defense announced this morning that russian paratroopers blocked soledar from the north and south, and fighting is going on inside the city about the battles in the city, radio svoboda confirmed yesterday evening in the svoboda battalion, whose fighters are in the direction of bakhmut, one of them, lieutenant of the national guard of ukraine yevhen ropai , joined us directly from the trench live, according to him, the russi

intensified, an active assault on the city began about a week ago, the founder of the wagner pvk, yevgeny prigozhyn, reports on the capture of the soledar starting from january 10, but until today , no one officially confirmed his message that a year ago, about 10,000 people lived in soledari, the city worked there, forming state-owned enterprises, artemsil is the largest salt production company in east central europe, the plant stopped working in the spring. well, what does it look like the city is now eloquent satellite images published the day before by the american aerospace company max the photos show that in soledar residential buildings and schools have been completely destroyed the situation in soledar let's discuss with the military expert oleksiy melnyk, co-director of foreign policy and international security programs of the razumkov center , joined our broadcast. good evening, mr. melnyk, do you see signs that the russian army has captured the city, as the russian ministry of defense claims, or signs that the armed forces of ukraine are leaving the city? enough of a dispute, the informa

. attacking the enemy and repelling the population one by one yevgeny, in recent days there has appeared that one version of why prigozhynvanners is one of the most powerful driving forces of the villages, in particular, and in the direction of bakhmut, allegedly he is interested in the established controls above the salt and gypsum baths near the ukrainian-held city of bakhmut, he is allegedly even sure that it is in these mines that ours there can keep some equipment and something else uh-uh, this is in particular information uh-uh from the united states uh-uh they have this version of the development of events exactly that's why they will press on bakhmut so much, our military analysts note that bakhmut is strategically important. it opens the possibility of exit to kramatorsk and sloviansk if we are talking about the donetsk region. well, and so on . in your opinion, why is there so much pressure there? it would seem that so many people have already put so much equipment theirs has already been destroyed, and the price we pay for this defense is also extremely high. well, let's start with the fact that i questioned t