Andrew Marr: What does peace look like to Russians, as they turn Soledar into the Ypres, the Stalingrad, of the 2020s?
Moscow's forces are desperately throwing troops at Soledar, a salt mining town in the east of the country which could enable them to take the nearby town of Bakhmut.
Russia appears desperate to take both and has spent weeks expending men and munitions in its characteristically bloody way of war. "Gift of salt, Soledar in Ukrainian, is the little Cossack town, reduced to brick dust and matchwood and surrounded by a liquid mass of corpses where, right now, the Russians and Ukrainians are fighting one of the most desperate battles in modern history.
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