Mercenary deaths followed an earlier attack that reportedly killed more than 100 Russian army soldiers.
. Border guards shelled the mercenaries with 82-millimeter mortars that caused deaths and the unit's retreat, Ukraine said.
Wagner Group members were reportedly advancing in small groups in the direction of Bakhmut, with infantry convening in one of the courtyards near an urban development. The strike followed Ukrainian attacks resulting in"the destruction of more than 100 occupiers" and Russian equipment in the same region. Kyiv said the causes of death were artillery fire and a strike by a Tochka-U missile, according to a Telegram post by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces.
This photo taken from AFP video footage shows a member of Ukraine's military looking away as a BM-21 Grad MLRS 122mm rocket launcher fires on the outskirts of Soledar on January 11, 2023. In inset, Russian billionaire, businessman and Concord catering company owner Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with foreign investors at Konstantin Palace on June 16, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Wagner units took control of the entire territory of Soledar....No units other than Wagner PMC fighters were involved in the storming of Soledar," Prigozhin said, adding that Ukrainians were still holding out in the city's center."Heavy fighting for the city of Soledar is ongoing in Donetsk Oblast. Russians continue to actively storm the city despite huge losses of personnel," Hanna Maliar, deputy head of Ukraine's defense ministry, said in a statement on Telegram.
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