Russia’s Defense Minister abruptly replaced his commanding general in Ukraine, in an apparent nod to the battlefield setbacks that have hobbled Moscow’s wider military campaign in recent months. Follow our live coverage of the war.
for his brutal tactics in Syria, will be replaced by Gen. Valery Gerasimov, longtime chief of the Russian military’s General Staff.and said he could not corroborate claims that it has fallen to Russian forces, saying in aWednesday that Ukrainian forces “have acquitted themselves … in a very impressive fashion” as they “continue to fight a very determined fight.”
Wagner Group founder Yevgeniy Prigozhin reiterated his claim that his private military forces had seized all of Soledar — an assertion Ukraine denied and Russian officials downplayed. “I want to confirm the complete liberation and cleansing of the territory of Soledar,” Prigozhin said in a Wednesday statement posted on Telegram. “The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers,” he said. The, meanwhile, reported Thursday morning that more than a hundred Russian service members were killed in the area. The Washington Post could not verify the figures.
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