The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Hanna Malyar, said that fighting continues in the Soledar area, the enemy is unsuccessfully trying to break through the defenses and is suffering significant losses.

She announced this at a briefing on January 12.

"Fierce and heaviest battles continue today in the area of ​​Soledar in the direction of Bakhmut. Despite the difficult situation, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting desperately. The enemy is unsuccessfully trying to break through our defenses and capture Soledar, and is suffering heavy losses," said Malyar and added that the approaches to the city today they are actually littered with the bodies of Putin's slain soldiers.

She emphasized that the Russians "are moving directly over the bodies of their dead soldiers."

Battles for Soledar and Bakhmut

We will remind that currently the hottest spots on the front are Bakhmut and Soledar.

There are ongoing battles.

The Russians, who do not have much success in the war, threw all their forces there to reach the borders of the Donetsk region.

Moreover, the leader of PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose mercenaries are storming the Bakhmut direction, has already announced several times about the capture of Soledar.

However, this is not true.

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