MORE than 100 Russian soldiers have been killed in a single missile strike, Ukraine claims. It comes amid a brutal battle for the salt mining town Soledar in eastern Ukraine. Russian private m…
It comes amid a brutal battle for the salt mining town Soledar in eastern Ukraine.Russian private military firm Wagner Group claimed its capture of the town was complete on Wednesday.On Thursday, Ukraine said it had used a Soviet-era Tochka-U missile to blast and kill a group of more than 100 Russian soliders after they were spotted with a drone.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tweeted: "Over a hundred Russian occupiers were eliminated in the Soledar area. "This happened thanks to the coordinated work of soldiers of the Special Operations Forces, gunners and rocket launchers." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mocked previous Wagner claims to have seized part of Soledar.
He said in a video address: "The terrorist state and its propagandists are trying to pretend that part of our town of Soledar ... is some sort of a Russian possession.
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