Wagner comments on Ukrainian casualties in Soledar

Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Soledar have either surrendered or been killed, Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said on Wednesday. Fighters with the private military company completely surrounded the Donbass town the day before and are now clearing the extensive tunnel network in the town's salt mines.

“I want to repeat that Soledar has been fully liberated and cleared of Ukrainian army units,” Prigozhin said in a statement on Wednesday evening. “The Ukrainian troops that refused to surrender have been destroyed.”