Russia’s Ministry of Defence says its forces have captured Soledar, where bloody battles have raged for days.
There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian authorities of Russia’s claim, which would mark a rare victory for Moscow after months of setbacks.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from Moscow, Russia and Natacha Butler reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Just had to throw in the children to move our hearts.. im sure theyll be fine if uks dont use them as shields.
Good Job Russia
Congratulations Russia 🇷🇺
Good work Russia!
Zelensky can lie too much
Congrats 🎉👏 to Putin’s men.
Should empty all your prisons and just let them run the government.
Funny I seen videos from Ukranians in that town fighting saying the opposite
If you hate the west and Ukraine watch al Jazeera 🤣🤣🤣🤣
*Zelensky has just announced that Ukraine won against Russia.*
Those kids are keep hostages by Ukrainian supremacist but they are surrounded I fear the worst, the western media find more and more difficult to justify their lies 🙏please Russia free us all🙏
Can’t live without an imperial master?
The situation at the front in a few weeks?
Zelensky: “Joe, where are all your troops going-to counterattack?”
Biden: “No, they’re going home, Volodymyr……but you hang in there and defend democracy and our western values”….yeah and Volodymyr, don’t call me again, okay?
😂😂😂
It is incredible how Russia alone tackles the whole of NATO single-handedly.
@mabutoo very well, if you really have been to war many times, then you must know that war is not a small matter. it is a matter. Largely nothing good comes of it. To go to war means a failure to appriciate and use the most basic means of communication to forge a common solution between humans. War is barbaric and primitiv however you put it. So let me say this to you, mr. mabutoo, i am not intrested in war or in your destruction. I am not intrested in bullying you and neither am i hoping that you fear me. I certainly hope you have a brain and the patience to discuss and see the points of your percieved adversaries from their vintage points and may be understand them rather that resort to basic instincts of war. I wish you good health and a long life without war.
@M IMO, letting Russia threaten war to let it conquer smaller nations is the same mistake the world made in the 1930’s with Hitler. And they wound up going to war anyway.
@Faiez Cader Who indeed? Did Georgia attacked Russia?
@Jotnar Russia has everything what it needs to live without the rest of the world but not the West depended from others’ countries natural resources.The West WAS the robber of there world and still IS,just simply changing the hypocritical covers for their robbery,before it was Christianity today is “democracy” but both are just hypocritical cover of the same imperialistic intentions.
@Obitaemyi Ostrov good job parroting putler’s propaganda machine!
Putin ♥️♥️♥️
Reporter , yesterday was different and today is a victory
GLORY GLORY TO RASSIA
Can’t live without an imperial master? You’d better learn how to spell its name.
USA UK are to blame for the USA proxy war in UKRAINE blinken has the perfect patsy called Zelensky
Quote of the day: “…artillery, air force and ground forces were altogether a big element in what…*pause*… they described as an achievement…” *shows imagery of completely levelled city*
this is WWlll what you expecting flowers growing
@Rade My quote of the day, as he self corrects from saying achievement to “what they described as” an achievement, ^_^, presumably given it’s a bit difficult to call such destruction an achievement, XD, lol.
West Used Ukraine to fight war with Russia they are not helping them they are sending them to death. War will stop when Russia takes full control. Now Zelensky will run back and ask for more weapons, you let clown lead your country against leader like President Putin. Only I can say Good Luck.
Russia is just getting started overwhelming odds they will finish the war this winter😮
It’s pointless negotiating with Russia as any agreement would be completely worthless. Russia has shown multiple times that it would break any agreement whenever it suits. Not a scrap of honour in anyone in the Russian Government.
Russia did make commitment for the Minsk agreements. The west purposely didn’t keep the part of the bargain and so this war happens.
Russia made a lot of agreements with the west since collapse of the USSR but the west didn’t keep their word
You are describing NATO and the US , not Russia.
Russia Broke agreement?? I thought Merkel admitted that they lied to Russia in order to give enough time to Ukraine ??
Glory to mother RUSIA from Africa💪💪
i wish you a Russian liberation.
Gayo, can’t live without imperial master?
Russia fight with half of world military Aid 🤭
Alone loin
I don’t believe a word anymore what the Russians say it’s all propoganda lies they’re feeding puti
Nlllllll
How many children are trapped in Yemen because of the Saudis and their ilk?
The reporter is stuttering.hehehe
Go Russia love and support from India 🇮🇳 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪
Willis, missing your old colonial master and looking for a new one?
@Nina Otan cheap manipulation 🤡
So express your indignation to the British
@Nina Otan Russia is indias time tested friend long live indo-russian ties.
@willis fernandes I wouldn’t be so optimistic about future friendship as under current circumstance Russia is not ably to sell weapons to India. An interesting sign in this respect is that your PM Modi cancelled his regular meeting with Putin last year. It is the second cancellation. The first one was due to Covid.
@Nina Otan our pm modi cancelled his recent travel to Russia to meet putin was due to scheduling issues.
Regarding weapons delivery from Russia all of them have progressed and the few remaining deliveries are on schedule so no worries.
That lady being dishonest 500 Ukrainian troops were encircled and left behind now they are gone
Russia even asked if Ukraine wanted to make a sease fire and prevent more war but Ukraine said no and now Ukraine is lossing more ground . American weapons and tax dollars hard at work that the American people don’t want. Everybody’s but Americas border is sacred.
…I love Russians…
Lot of bots in this comment section
Russia ✅💪
Since this War Started Ukraine and West establishments Including Western media has LIED whilst the Russians have been Truthful , so we all know whom to believe 🙏🏼✌️
Sure, Russia is ‘truthful’. However, if you were a Russian citizen you could be jailed for using word ‘war’ for this war.
@Nina Otan I understand Russia is Not perfect and has its problems but compared to the Corruption in the US the aggression and Evil the US has caused around the world including preparing Ukraine for this War since 2014 fabricating a FAKE Minsk agreement to give the US time to expand the Ukrainian Armies, we can see whom is the real evil here 🙏✌️
Notice how World War Two had move videos!? Kinda like westerns media are trying to hide the truth…
The moment western media and Ukraine began propaganda of mass waves of Russian troops being mowed down, I knew soledar/ bahkmut would be lost. They were justifying the loss. Bahkmut is the gateway to Kramatorsk and slovyansk which are 35km and 40km away. They are the last cities in donetsk in ukranian hands. Ukraine should focus their resources there.
Russia barely need to do anything right now and are decimating Ukrainian and Nato forces. Ukraine fires over 7,000 bullets a DAY which btw takes the US about 2 WEEKS to make which means that the west will not be able to keep supplying Ukraine with ammo. The Russians are taking their time, reducing their own KIA’s and have turned Bakhmut into a Ukrainian meat grinder and the streets are littered with victims that America’s biggest welfare queen sent to die for the cause of making his bank account bigger.
Russia even toys with them by playing hours of recorded gun shots and fake gun flashes which forces the Ukrainian conscripts to fire like crazy at nothing completely giving away their own positions which the Russians are waiting for them to enter the meat grinder and if they try to flee the tanks fire at them.
10-15 Ukrainian KIA’s for every 1 Russian KIA is madness and that biarch in Kyiv needs to say yes to Putin’s peace talks and lose some land before he has zero Ukrainians left to defend him or his Neo-Nazis. Wars start and end in offices and i have served twice as a tool of death. Soldiers are just pawns in a real chess game and only Putin and that comic relief can and will end it.
Think of the Ukrainian people and not about the land itself or the profits war makes them scummy 1%s who start these fights.
USA and nato losing the war, sad😝
Not in it fool.
Or is Russia completely incompetent of striking any nato or us subs / ships / aircraft etc?
@TheBarnestah go back to sleep this stuff is bigger than your IQ
@omar sheriff Just stating fact. Even people with minimal IQ can see your comment is idiotic. But if it makes you feel better. Keep fooling yourself in daisy-land.
Mariupol 2.0
One word: delusional
Odd news day 13.1.23 BBC had to put on a spokesperson refuting the Ukraine defence ministers Claim, Ukraine was a de-facto (in Law) member of NATO ! Meanwhile Turkey is blocking Swedens application for membership. A unknown BBC reporter In Ukraine reports a Ukraine Victory of sorts, in making a tactical withdrawal from Soledar to kill more Russians.
Well done Russia 🇷🇺
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂🦾 Russie 🇷🇺 king of all time 🕰️
Good news
Victory ❤❤❤❤❤❤💯
Of course Russia has captured Soledar! What civilians you are talking about??? Another blablabla story from Zelensky. Bahmut is next.
Russia❤❤❤❤go for it!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Well done Russia.
Is supporting an imperial master in your genes?
@Nina Otan is being an American lapdog in yours?
There are so many conflicting news about who is controlling Soledar, it depends who are they working for WEST OR NATO, Russia is in control now.
Wow.. many Russian bots. Middle east backing up Russia. Did not forget about Syria and Afghanistan lol
Slava Ukraini ❤️🇵🇰❤️🇺🇦… What goes around comes around
This Winter…Russia will be in Kyiv…
With all this crisis happening around the world one needs to have different portfolio,I already invested in forex and crypto which are really profitable.
Unofficial news that UKRAINE IS A DE FACTO NATO MEMBER justifies RUSSIAN to act for it’s threat security.
All I can say is that Soledar must be extremely important to Ukraine. They have wasted the lives of 1000s of men trying to hold it, but ultimately failed in the end.
Ukr move they man from soledar to put them in bahkmut
@Thomasand Russia 50,000. As they said Russia lost more troops
@Patty Winner loss more troops than loser ? Does ut sound logical to you?
@Wave Surfer yes as they keep fight to win and get killed more
Again a lot of infantile posts in the exchanges. Both sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for Soledar. Military doctrine states that it is a 3(attack) to 1(defender) kill ratio. There is still pockets of Ukranian resistance in Soledar in the north of the town. The Russians and Wagner Group have sustained huge casualties in Soledar due to poor infantry military tactics and doctrine which incorporated human wave attacks akin to “going over the top” in WW1. Russian heavy infantry casualties has always been standard Russian military doctrine. Look at the Winter War & WW2 for example. Ukranian military doctrine was to hold the town for as long as possible and inflict heavy casualties which they did. This they accomplished. Even journalists sympathetic to Russia confirm heavy Russian casualties. Where else on the Eastern Front was the Russians using outdated human wave attacks that guaranteed heavy infantry casualties? Of course the Ukranians were going to hold the town for as long as possible as in military parlance it was an EHP(Enemy Haemorrhage Point)i.e. the Russians taking heavy casualties. At the same time it is ridiculous in the west to downplay the importance and capture of Soledar. It is important for both political and military reasons.Every inch of the Donbas captured by the Russians is a propaganda coup for a domestic audience and they can justifiably claim they have achieved a goal of the “Special Military Operation”. It is important for economic reasons due to the salt mines. These can be used to accommodate both military personnel and heavy hardware and equipment. Also the Russians can interfere with Ukranian supply routes and logistic avenues in the area. The Russians will obviously used it as a springboard for further advances and offensives in the Donbas. The Russians control most if not all of Luhansk and about 50% of Donetsk. These two regions comprise the Donbas and Russia is control of the vast majority of the geographical region. That’s a fact.
Why are you worrying about you now know this zelensky general said few weeks ago do not under estimate Russia
Putin is gunna take all of the east and all of the south to Odessa. Ukraine will be land locked. Pay attention because it’s going to happen FAST.
Now Russia must completely destroy all infrastructure in the West with polish border to make sure weapons delivery is slowed down as possible while also looking to cut off the Nazis from the sea..Odessa and beyond
Begkraine really has no sense of reality
The USA is to be blamed for all thats happening in the world
Their aim is to destroy the Russian federation.
Thats not gonna happen
NATO vs. Wagner in Soledar, what will happen when real Russian Army turns up?
Ahh, yes, whenever Ukraine loses a position, they remember that there are civilians there.
War of rumors of war repent Jesus christ is our soon coming king repent
Why zelensky did not take the opportunity when Russia offers the ceasefire. woe to does whom love war repent Jesus christ is our soon coming king repent
Three weeks ago Soledar was the most strategic town in East of Dnieper, now it is a just a salt mine – according to Ukrainian news.
Lol, yes that is how the media operates. You’re not the only one who has noticed this pattern.
What’s strategic about it?
@D E Soledar is surrounded by hills, so very well protected and the defender always has the highground, providing good vision and range for artillary.
It is a nexus point for multiple roadways. Whoever controls Soledar controls the passage of arms, goods, and personel to many different regions.
The mines act as hardened bunkers to store ammunition and weapons where they can’t be destroyed by rockets.
Also, whoever controls Soledar can assault Bakhmut from the north.
I would say it is a very strategic location for both sides.
Step by step Russia 🇷🇺
This guy is incoherent.
There’s no war in Ukraine there’s only peace operation against western imperialists aggression and provocations and denazification
Nato , must be very disappointed.
A day without humiliation is a day wasted. -Zelensky and western bot
Ukraine losers simpl runing away from the reality of defeat.
Empire of lies
The supply of weapons, money, and mercenaries to a non-NATO country once again confirms who is organizer of this war.
But Zelensky said retreat is not allowed.
Let them have the tunnels and them block the entrances and starve them out
In uncensored media (not here) you see endless ukrainians being killed in various horrendous battle scenes. There are lots of video showing areas around Bahkmut. Everywhere dead ukrainians on the ground. This is censored by western media of course like all the truth. NATO are fast running out of ukrainians.
RAISE THE GHOST OF SOVIET, that a good tittle for my history book
Lord, creator of the universe, glory be to you alone. Please intervene and stop us all from killing each other. This world belongs to You forever. It doesn’t belong to us.
URRAAA! Soledar to Bakhmut to Odessa shall be liberated from nato’s ukronazi!
The civilians in Soledar probably refused to be evaculated because like Bakhmut they’re pro Russia, or at least ambivalent as to what flag they salute.
You Can Tell A Fake News Network Like Al Jazeera When The Show Footage From 2 or 3 Weeks Ago! FAKE NEWS! RUSSIA WILL WIN THIS WAR!
🧔🏻♂️=🤡
I mean Nato are trying all their best for Russia to not win this war but God is Russia because nato are hypocrites and just enemies of Russia’s progress and nato cannot win God
Stand with Russia 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Need a new imperial master? Can’t live without one?
ukraine is always lying thats the fact
What the US and NATO can do Russia can do better the US used mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan
The rule is: Russia lies. Always. As of tonight, Soledar is still fighting Russian occupiers’ troops of convicts, mercenaries, and elite airborne. Glory to Ukraine!
26,000 Ukies and mercs dead there. Good enough for you?
why are all these newschannels and reporters so cynical or gloomy or reluctant to simply say that Russia has taken control.
Low morale low stock of ammunition … yet Soledar is gone ..
Congratulations 👏🎉 God Bless Russia Forever. Love to Russia from Senegal 🌍❤️🙏
It fills like you are so accustomed to have a colonial master. Need a new one?
God bless Russian federation 🇷🇺
Ukranian zomby nazies 💩💩💩💩
Glory to RUSSIA! 💪💪💪
Russia, Ukraine war is entertaining whole world, with UNO, UNSC, IHRC
😄😄😄😄😄😄🤣🤣🤣🤣
Russia is not fighting civilians , Russia is fighting zelenske terrorist
450 children were killed by Russians in this war.
I thought russia is losing the war…..F£%%@Ck western media..!!!
Every acer in Ukraine must be respected .