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President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut and Soledar in the east will be armed with everything they need to keep Russian troops at bay in some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

This handout picture taken and released on January 11, 2023 by the Ukranian Presidential Press Service shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paying tribute to fallen soldiers at the Field of Mars of Lychakiv Cemetery in the western city of Lviv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. /

The Kremlin has made capturing Bakhmut — and Soledar with it — its primary objective after nearly one year of fighting, having been forced to abandon more ambitious goals such as seizing the capital Kyiv. Military maps released by Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday did not show Soledar under the control of Moscow’s regular army.A Russia-installed official in Donetsk, Andrey Baevsky, said there were still “small pockets of resistance” from Ukraine inside the city, claiming Russian-backed troops had nearly full control.

“Huge work has been done in Soledar, absolutely selfless heroic actions, not only in Soledar,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.The battle for Soledar comes as Moscow on Wednesday announced a major military reshuffle, putting Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov in charge of its operations in Ukraine.

When Russia invaded in February, Belarus allowed Moscow’s troops stationed there to cross the Ukraine border via its territory. “Both Russians and Ukrainians are now saying publicly that there are parts of the front where their military drones cannot operate, where their commercial drones can be jammed and rendered inoperable,” Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder said.Observers have said that Soledar itself — a salt mining town with an estimated pre-war population of more than 10,000 people — is of little strategic importance.

 

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