NEAR SOLEDAR: On a road near Soledar, members of Ukraine's territorial defence launched a surveillance drone towards the front line, where fighting is raging to hold back waves of fierce Russian attacks. Ukraine conceded on Wednesday (Jan 25) its troops had pulled back this month from Soledar, a town in th
There was no"mass capture" or"encirclement" of Ukrainian forces, he added.
The commander of Igor's unit, a senior sergeant with the call sign"Alkor" said there had been"a strong battle on the front line", with Ukrainian troops raining shells down on Russian forces."We shoot and shoot and shoot, but after five minutes another wave of 20 enemies is coming at us ... their numbers are huge. They use people as cannon fodder.
"Soledar is gone," said 144th territorial defence battalion deputy commander Volodymyr Leonov, 10 kilometres away, where servicemen recouped away from the front. And the grinding fight to prevent Russian forces from making even further gains is taking a toll, Leonov added.This comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday signed legislation toughening punishments for disobedience or desertion from the armed forces.But for certain people, prison is better than dying in the trenches in Donetsk. At least,"some think so," Leonov said.
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