9.01.2023
Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
Russia threw all its forces into the assault on Soledar in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region. After previous failures, the enemy regrouped, transferred additional forces, changed tactics – and launched powerful attacks on the city.
A significant percentage of the assault forces of the invaders are mercenaries of the Wagner PMC. They pass the bodies of their own dead and cover their own fighters with fire. This was told by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar on the evening of January 9.
According to her, the Russian occupation troops, despite huge losses, did not give up their intentions to capture Soledar.
“After an unsuccessful attempt to capture Soledar and a retreat, the enemy regrouped, surveyed losses, deployed additional assault detachments, changed tactics and launched a powerful assault,” she said.
According to Malyar, the defenders of Soledar are holding back a powerful attack of the Russian invaders right now.
“Currently, the enemy has deployed many assault groups formed from the best reserves of the Wagnerites. The enemy is advancing literally over the corpses of its own soldiers, massively using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and mortars, covering even their own fighters with fire. Our defenders courageously defend every meter of their native land. Fierce fighting continues right now,” Malyar said.
Recall that earlier journalist Yuri Butusov spoke about the heavy battles for Soledar . He reported that the enemy is trying to storm the city every day, but runs into a powerful response from the Ukrainian Defense Forces. In the broken Soledar, groups of our defenders are fighting at distances of 20-30 meters, preventing the enemy from advancing.
The grueling long continuous battle at short distances, according to him, has been going on for more than a week. It is difficult to calculate the losses of the invaders, whom the command of the Russian Federation throws into the slaughter.
At the same time the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave a forecast about the battles for Soledar: Ukrainian soldiers stated as early as the afternoon of January 9 that the situation could escalate.
Russian forces may step up the offensive due to freezing weather, but it will allow the Ukrainian defenders to defend more actively.
It was also reported that two British volunteers disappeared in the Bakhmut direction: they left for Soledar – and communication with them was cut off.
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“The enemy is advancing literally over the corpses of its own soldiers, massively using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and mortars, covering even their own fighters with fire.”
Whoever knows the details about WWII battles on the Eastern Front will find baffling parallels to these inhumane tactics with Red Army ones. Nothing … absolutely nothing has changed in mafia land in the past 80 years.
The allies must give Ukraine tanks, long-range missiles and planes ASAP!
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Excerpt from the guardian:
Two British men have gone missing in Ukraine the Foreign Office has said.
The families of both UK nationals were being supported after they disappeared according to a statement on released on Monday.
The men were named in reports as volunteers Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry.
The pair were last known to be traveling from Kramatorsk to Soledar on 6 January, according to Sky News.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/two-british-men-missing-in-ukraine-says-foreign-office
https://news.sky.com/story/british-nationals-volunteering-in-ukraine-are-reported-missing-by-police-in-the-donetsk-region-12783188#cobssid=s