Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The war between Russia and Ukraine continues. More recently, a bloody battle was reported at Soledar in eastern Ukraine.
Please note that this area is located in the industrial zone of Donbass. The area has in fact been at the center of fighting since the outbreak of war.
Soledar is also close to Bakhmut. Ukraine is trying to defend these two areas from Russian occupation.
Several reports, among others Reuters, mentioning how “crazy” the Ukrainian troops were. Ukrainian forces briefly pushed back the Russians, including units of the Wagner group.
Wagner himself was a soldier recruited from Russian prisons and known for his uncompromising violence. Wagner was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The enemy has literally trampled on the corpses of their own soldiers,” said Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar, reporting on the war published on Tuesday (10/1/2023).
“(They) used mass artillery, MLRS systems and mortars,” he added.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Soledar and Bakhmut “survived” despite the widespread destruction. He cited a new and more violent attack on Soledar, in which he said there were no more standing walls and the ground was covered with Russian corpses.
“Thanks to the resilience of our troops in Soledar, we have won more time and more strength for Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
The most intense first line
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian military analyst, Por Zhdanov, said the fighting at Soledar and Bahkmut was “the most intense on the entire front”. But there is little progress.
“So many (troops and pro Russia) remain on the battlefield… dead or wounded,” he said on YouTube.
“They attack in waves, but the wounded usually die in a saga on the spot, either from extreme cold or from loss of blood,” he added.
“Nobody came to help them or to collect the dead from the battlefield,” he said.
Meanwhile, there have been no Russian comments on this. But Russia had previously been criticized for providing false reports about the war.
Russia’s defense ministry said it sent rocket attacks against buildings in the city of Kramatorsk and said it killed at least 600 Ukrainian soldiers. This was a revenge operation for the country’s deadly attack near the Russian barracks in Makiivka, the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine, which killed 89 Kremlin soldiers.
However, in several other Western media reports, the Russian missile attack on the city allegedly missed. Indeed, there were no clear signs of casualties, according to a reporter covering it.
No hostels in the eastern city of Kramatorsk were directly hit or seriously damaged. There were no clear signs that soldiers had lived there, including body marks or traces of blood.
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