If Russia’s capture of Soledar is confirmed, it would be Moscow’s first gain in the Donbas region since July.
It comes at a crucial time for the Kremlin, which has faced criticism for its battlefield failures in Ukraine.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from Moscow.
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They got paid so they don’t deserve the glory. That’s the deal. Prigozin is just now realizing how little of a man he is in the grand scheme of things.
All Soldiers in all volunteer armies get paid. That is why the military calls them privates.
99.9% of Wagner are ex military soldiers from the armed forces of Russia but AJ is pretending that all Wagner fighters are mercenaries from Britain and America lol The mainstream media will do anything they can to discredit Russia..
I think it’s cause by rf const it’s illegal a private army. But hey they haven’t been very considerative about laws anyways.
He knows where his place is, stop kidding. It’s just that he wants to be sure he’s the one who gets a “good boy” from putin. Maybe he will actually get those mines he’s been paying with so many lives for
Need to find anything to create division amongst the Russian force! This what a desperate western media are engaged now! Sad to see this TV channel from the middle east to be a mouth piece of Western neo-cons!
pateto patato, only difference between is how much they have to pay the individual soldier
moscow is soo happy about taking a small town with like 10 buildings wow congratz
Don’t worry Ukraine is going to be liberated soon
🤡🤡🤡
Hihihihihi..those thieved
But don’t you know, they haven’t started yet 😂
in aa 6 month period, lol
Everyone knows that it was Russian VDV disguised as UAF that opened the door in Soledar. Wagnerites are mere Cannon Meat. Pootin despises Prigozhin and will use up his Wagnerites and LPR/DPR and save his precious VDV to rule over Russia in the future 😔🇺🇦💪💙💛
It’s very stupid to be jealous of the group that has made a push forward in 6 months. Putin is afraid Wagner leader would be more popular in Russia than him.
It might turn out somewhat strange if President Putin presents Hero Of Russia medals to Wagner troops who were former convicts. But now with Gerasimov in charge order will prevail and petty jealousies evaporate. General Gerasimov doesn’t sit there with a stiff poker face for nothing ….. when he does speak people take notice and he gets things done …. correctly. Wagner will get it’s due share of praise.
General Gerasimov is a clown, don’t forget he has been in charge of the military that turned a 3 day invasion into an 11 month war and oversaw the Moscova, which had Russias best air defense systems and was sunk by ukrainian missiles. He was in charge of 10,000 tanks, 6000 of which are in so bad of repair they can’t move.
Wrong 99.9% of Wagner fighters are ex military soldiers from the Russian armed forces
Not all of them are convicts , Wagner group was created before this war . Besides if Ukraine have the azov battalion why would t Russia have Wagner group . The Kiev regime needs to go down . It’s a terrorist regime that’s a threat to the whole world .
@Yahya Elmi Off course i realize that but just speculated it would probably be unique if a non career soldier distinguished himself and in the end it will be interesting to see how many of those medals are awarded and how many Wagner, Chechen’s, LPR – DPR and Russians receive them. If any Wagner did accomplish this i doubt their history would be announced during the ceremony or any time after but these things sometimes leak out. It wouldn’t be very Presidential for Mr Putin to pin the medal and at the same time hand over a pardon document.
Finally some good news. Beggars army will lose against brave soldiers of the Rodina
Meaningless reporting. Always trying to spin the news to satisfy their masters. This is no journalism.
Bakhmut was the focus for months and they couldn’t take it. So the factions of Russian forces climbing over each other to claim the credit for a consolation prize of Soledar.
@Dan Welterweight it’s amazing how the “Russian goals” completely change from one ruskie bot to the next. You all talk like you have inside info, yet you all just make stuff up to try and counter whatever the original comment says. I’ve read so many of these bullshit paragraphs from people like you who have no idea what’s going on it’s insane
@Dan Welterweight
Have you been watching too much Russian TV ?
@SkyIron I don’t even understand Russian.
I am getting my information from US COL. Douglas MacGregor, Former UN Weapons Inspector and fomer US Marine Col Scott Ritter, Canadian- American on the ground reporter Lisa Berthart, Former US marine and independent reporter on the ground Patrick Lancaster and both Alexes from the Duran.
Where you getting your information from? BBC and DW, France 24, Sky News CNN and the same Mainstream Western media outlets That keep saying Ukraine is winning, Ukraine is winning. Putin has cancer and has dementia.
Russia is running out of weapons and ammunition, but if we don’t beat them in Ukraine they will take over the whole of Europe!!!
@SkyIron According to france 24 there are 100 wounded ukranian soldiers at day. And this not to mention the casualties
@Dan Welterweight if that’s Putin’s plan, it’s very dumb. He gets sanctions and economic blockade that has Russia more and more poorer.
And demilitarize of Ukraine at what cost? Russians have heavier casualties then Ukrainians and have to call in more mobilization/reservists which comes with backlash from its population.
On top of that , Ukrainians will not get demilitarized because it gets continued flow of arms from the west. In fact it’s getting more and more sophisticated weapons that Russians are having hard time to cope. So ironically Ukrainian army is going to be one of the most powerful military in the world soon, thanks to Putin.
And let’s not forget this little town is the biggest achievement for Russia in 6months. Otherwise Ukrainians have continually retaken a lot of land.
The only allies russia has is Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea and Eritrea, and Ukrainian do have more power allies all around the globe. (Mostly from the west) So no, Russia isn’t winning. It’s definitely losing.
These are facts whatever media you believe.
who can deliver more ukrianian heads on the table wins….
i can more russia heads, bc your gov doesnt come and get dead bodies
The end of the boasting of Ukrainian president joker. Now this stupid dumb man should shut his mouth.
This so called media really thinks we’re idiots & we don’t understand anything, isn’t Russia praises by said russian Armed forces if is that so then isn’t Wagners part of armed forces or They’re part of a Soccer team, going to play there, these f media thinks this is how they will create Division Between russian forces, while knowing these stupid tricks are backdated useless tactics.
Russia has lost over half its working or repairable tanks at a cost of about 3% of NATOs yearly budget, its managed to expand NATO with the joining of Finland and Sweden, has lost by far its biggest customers for oil and gas, and all its foreign currency held abroad. Now managed to take a pile of rubble that was once a town of 7,000. Not going very well is it.
@Jon McFarmer мясники твои азовцы и ты прекрасно об этом знаешь только пока еще не все всплыло
@Hello There NO! Russia would not be done for. The WORLD would be done for. Russia has the most nuclear weapons on the planet.
There’s a reason NATO countries are doing everything to not escalate this war. Because they know, Putin has the weaponry to destroy the entire planet.
@Константин Марков Russian soldiers are criminal cowards. In the end we (the West) will iliminate them and their joke of military equipment. How are your aircraft carrier doing comrade? 🤣😂🤣
@DarkMusky The criminal Russians has advanced before AND been thrown out again. They are done comrade and so are their future. Back to the iron curtain and Lada time again.
@Jon McFarmer это ваша американская армия сборище трусов и пидарасов -чего на стороне украины не воюете ? слабо?))))
Now it’s crystal clear Russia is winning NATO
soledar is a city of 10,000 people and Russia still hasn’t taken it after 3 weeks of fighting, They said 3 days ago they took it, and today the front lines have shifted in favor of Ukraine.. Bahkmut is 70,000 people and Russia has been attacking it for 7 months without any progress. The idea that Russia has any opportunity to take two other cities with half a million people each is absurd. And what really is absurd is that everyone is talking about Soledar and not talking about Ukraine taking Krimina, which is a bigger city.
The Ukraine fighters in Soledar were the Best men of Ukrainian army…
think you can do better? be my guest
Russia took Mariupol, Melitopol, Donetsk, Mariupol in less than 3 months… Ukraine still hasn’t take any city
Because Soledar is more important
they sent wave after wave of criminals they hire, people forced or brain washed from the Donbass area and maybe 1/3 of them were real wagner. so no it wasn’t just the parasites/wagner group attacking…
Such a shame a country proud of capturing another country’s territory, killing people and feel proud of it.
Whoever despises the word is doomed, he who keeps the commandment is rewarded.
The battle for Soledar is the first stage of Russia’s major offensive…From now on the fighting will be more and more intense. The appointment of General Gerasimov as overall commander is another indication that there are going to be multiple fronts in this offensive and this time, Russia bombers will play a major role…This could be the beginning of the end for Ukraine
@Dan Welterweight yeah, a matter of time….years…maybe decades. Hope the land grab is worth the death of hundreds of thousands and being a pariah in the eyes of the world for the next 50 years. Attempting to call a peaceful nation “nazis” to justify murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people is despicable. You should be ashamed of yourself for celebrating this evil.
In putins dreams perhaps
So…Russia is waiting until all the air defense is in place before they send in their air power??? Doesn’t that strike you as idiotic??
@eymeera osaka they defend those towns because it belongs to them..and because they have seen what happens when the Russians take a town over like they did in Bucha and .any others
@Tom Bickman You call a single Patriot Missile Battery an air defense system? How idiotic!
litovkin PIDARAS
Good job Russia,this is a time
Good job for having a total useless army and needing to hire mercenaries 😂😂 clowns
Let’s all pretend Ukraine didn’t lie only yesterday and say it’s not true and they’re still in control of this town.
Al Jezeera trying to be divisive … no cred you 💩💩
UKRAINE WILL RE-TAKE
This comedian must bring to his knee… until that fire must go on.. no matter who did the job, but job must be done. Keep up the good job boys. Slava Russia.
they got soledar on what cost???? by stepping on fellow soldiers corpses…human wave tactics….they dead before progessing to bakhmut….it’s more than 6 months already they had been pushing to bakhmut…still they can’t get it…
Ucrânia nunca nunca vai vencer a Rússia, a não ser que a NATO e EUA declarem uma guerra directa contra a Rússia e isso é menos provável;
Putin is making Wagner and russians army to compete each other. Wagner chief saying russians army is corrupt and Putin saying nothing means Putin agreeing with him. Russians army understand Putin wants victories. Other very troubling declaration saying defeating Ukraine, Natos and conquering the world implies Putins own agenda.
Ukraine recaptures lands.
Media: Ukrainian victory march unleashed.
Russia levels the city and capture it back.
Media: Russia is fighting for credit.
Ukraine needs to quit lying…. My God. They are afraid to admit it cuz they might lose funding…
Who cares. They can find out about Russian generals “jelousy”, but not Ukrainian casualties?
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Dang, Al Jazeera indeed becoming more and more to the left right now. I do not expecting this kinda headlines in your reports AJ!!!
Europe – Qatar gas deal changes everything!!
Lol ahh yes, If it’s not what you want to hear it must be the left😂 clowns
Welp 99.9% of Wagner are ex military soldiers from the armed forces of Russia but AJ is pretending that all Wagner fighters are mercenaries from Britain and America lol The mainstream media will do anything they can to discredit Russia
Então agora vamos ter pena e defender os “músicos” porque deveriam estar registados e deste modo estão impedidos de receber as honras de Heróis de Soledar. Mas ocidente e a Al Jazeera têm muita “lata”. Sejam genuínos e não inventem rupturas ou tensões após uma Vitória que significa a derrocada da Ucrânia. Pensem em informar com profundidade e não entrem por comentários de café Mais interessante será a análise do corte das vias de acesso a Artemosk, a Siversk e o avanço para Krasnolyman. Posso dar outras ideias de jornalismo sério (e não sou jornalista ou comentador) para que se descolonizem intelectualmente. Sejam sérios e lavem a desonestidade encapotada.
Prigozhin is doing it for legalization of his business within the Russian law.
Victory by victory! Slava Ukraine!
The whole of Western Europe and America is fighting Russia and Russia is making them all eat the dust
Hi
Thanks AJE.
Prigozhin’s Wagner Group is the winner. He should be in charge of the entire military. He shakes up the Kremlin’s inertia, corruption, and lethargy.
Glory to Russian Emperor Army 🇷🇺💪
Yes, thank you for the fertilizer 😂
lol…. glory for looters, rapists and civilian killers? your glory would be Russia turned to ash.
Like Cherson😂
They will be there for 1 or 2 months and will be forced to leave due to lack of weapons and food supply.
@ChechenIn that time they will dig mass graves and torture civilians, even if the city is known as majority russian. So much for liberation.
Glory to Russia 🇷🇺 💪
@Budget King then why are they advancing`?
@Nhoj D’Lareg Vitto Russia will be rubble as well soon, just wait.
@Girth Brookz when? And how 😉
@Budget King Cough up your wallet, your precious Ukraine wants it 😂😂
@Nhoj D’Lareg Vitto Russia has a lot of resources NATO could use =]
Lol fighting over the credit of the capurting of a tiny village with 10k citizens before the war, Russia is down bad.
This is a Russia and Ukraine war, not AZOV battalions or Wagners war. This is not even the mercenaries war. Anyone contacted to fight is fighting for a country, not a private force. I doubt if this is an issue. Might just be a media’s attempt to create a perception of internal rifts
Blackwater
For a country? You really think prigozhins thugs and ex-convicts, or even himself, care about russia? Their sole purpose in this world is to get more money by any means possible. Just listen to their interviews. Russians are mobilized like cattle in their regular army, nobody asks if they want to die for their country. And with Wagner and other pmc – it’s clearly just money.
@Anderson Langosh mmhhhhh
@Marianna Batz when did they ask for it except during Orthodox chrismas?
Just a propaganda!They have a KING Putin!And will die for him!! No one cant stop the Russians when they feel Mather Russia is in a trouble!!
When you Ukraine loses these Western news have to say but when Ukraine wins it all over even in spaces properganda doesn’t work white this Generation
Big Bear putting the hammer down…. 10 – 4
Big Bear is made of paper and his balks and teeth just fell off
Slava Rossii
Now that Russia won a battle, you are looking for a fly in the ointment.
This can’t be a news? AJ use your head
If USA was to use prisoners for war , the prisoners would likely turn around n use weopons on the ones that caged them. But USA has one d largest armies on d planets. If they use prisoners. If a major conflict were to break out , the prisoners shoukd be training selves n preparing for what they will be asked to do for their freedom. Wagner style. No one fights harder for a home n nation than no home nothing to lose orphans.
. If you didn’t know you should know al prostitute Jazeera English is toilet paper of Jews and western demonCracy.
Looks like Salt Factory and city destroyed. Because of them, prices for salt will jump! . they are evil. pure evil making life in earth worse for everyone.
Already it is under Russian control. Mother land Russia prevail
The Russians are as usual lying. Their substandard weapon and Putins Wagner Nazis is jo match for western weapon technology, and we have even used our advanced weapon yet. God bless Ukraine and the West. 💪👍
HEY RUSSiIA come a bulling the USA
oops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good work mr putin
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Let me guess Wagner group are all British and American fighters! ..Nope Wagner are all ex military soldiers from the Russian armed forces..Mainstream media will do anything they can to discredit Russia
From the people who brought you, ‘Kiev in three days’ 😂
Now, Kiev in 30 years, maybe…
@welcometome bow if we extrapolate the square klm vs time than it would take a century to take kiev figuratively not 30 days.
LOL
WELL DONE RUSSIA FOR
CAPTURE OF SOLEDAD N
CONTINUE TO CAPTURE OF KYIV
At finally Russia winning this war.
They took a small town after nothing but loss in the last 6 months.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Russia is finding that illegally stealing land is harder than they thought.
They have been winning for the past 3-4 months
At finally more and more sanctions against Russia, there is the best possible help for Ukraine, because the world must eradicate all terrorism on the planet
Unlike the US, giving credit when it is due is the right thing to do in Russia. All those fake western media news which rubishes russia earlier news of victory is just another slap on them. My congratulations to russia and wagner group for scoring another win after mariapol victory.
This is TOTAL BS,,,,,,,,FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS
As expected this foolish media will bring something one after another..
Russia the great
Soledar Davno Kaptured
LIKVIDAZIA ukraina.
Still Zelensky says Soledad is not captured 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
High grade cocaine from Colombia.
No just zelenskey says
Also aljacera news assigned in soledar ….7hours ago news
Only Russian tv says they capture 😄😄😄
Funny Russian tv 😄😄😄
Bwahahaha AK ak
That the effect of sensored tv …
Poor Russia can’t even pay thier bills knowing nothing is free in this universe
you bet, taking credit over a battle that’s not over yet is super important for any ruzzian right now…how low and desperate will it get before ruzzia takes a hint and “strategically withdraw” all the way back to the kremlin ! Well done Ukraine !
slava Ukraini ! NATO should take the fight to Russia. How long can this be delayed….. ? It’s like watching the worlds largest snuff film…. what does this say about humanity ?
We must not give in to fascist Russia.
🤣🤣🤣 ALJAZEERA is ISIS/AL QAIDA, AL Shabab etc.. de facto affiliated channel is not happy & its very expected. They’re not happy every time President Sissi cracks on their terrorists in AL Sina region the list goes on& on. Look at AL Jazeera history its easy & fair to say these guys are ISIS in suits with ties, just better looking version for ignorant western viewers. Its amazing terrorists from different backgrounds no matter what’s the difference they come together& always AL Jazzera is there to cover up for them & even promote, now you see AL Jazeera routing for AZOV just as they’ve been doing for ISIS as they did for the Chechen separatists attacking kinder garden school as they did help also terrorists in Iraq while US presence. These MF were counting every time one of our soldiers died in Iraq with exuberance & joy they even celebrated, yet our stupid leaders across the aisle keep giving them pass like we don’t know how they were against US & still . POS AL Jazeera
I think west an ucrine president denied Russians control of soledar
All this war is a fight against the neverending Kremlin lies.
FUQ UKRAINE
GO RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!
Wow, Russia won a town after 3-4 months and over 20,000 dead Russians. Wow. That village is now theirs for a couple of weeks.
Russia on deployed 300k soldiers. Only half of that are in the operation. meaning. Russia is using just a fraction of its power in Ukraine,
Two weeks to go Soledar was the most strategic city East of Dneiper, today we are told it is just a salt mine. 🤪
Hahahaha…..even US now saying Bakhmut is not strategic. Then, why did NATO pour a huge military man to find dead in those places?
Care to provide any sources on that, russian bot?
It IS a salt mine If it had been considered strategic it would have had big defense Iines and a lot more men and equipment…it was in fact the weakest point to attack
The mainstream media is trying it’s best to spin a narrative to gloss over Ukraine’s devastating defeat
This is the worst channel please unsubscribed.
Wagner is unbreakable,
Ukraine should make dirty bombs and attack Moscow.
Wagner is brutal, they are as brutal at American special forces. Putin tried to be nice and adhere to some invisible international laws that the US and NATO ignores all the time, Wagner has no time for foolishness.
Soledar is lost to Russia. The west mainstream media must accept the fact. The fighting continues because some Ukraine soldiers are still trapped and they want to get out. Ukraine has no control of Soledar just a pocket of soldiers that are still trapped. So you must separate the two they are not the same.
😄😛😛The so-called winning Ukrainian Army are running like cowards. Bravo Russia 🇷🇺 👏 and shame on the USA for causing so many ukrainian casualties.
Afaik Prigozhin claimed it was him who sent Wagner mercenaries to Soledar, to eventually capture it. He went even further and said that it was Wagner mercenaries alone who caputed Soledar. It seems the paramilitaries under Prigozhin have made a significant gain for Russia despite heavy losses. And Putin is also looking for a successor. This could be the man considering what he has achieved recently
Lol
Imagine believing that prigozhin has some kind of independence in his actions. Also why do you think putin would be looking for a successor? Doesn’t look like he’s going somewhere any time soon
Russia has been storming Soledar for almost a month and is trying to surround Bakhmut at any cost. Or rather, only Prigozhin’s mercenaries are fighting there, that is, it will be only his land.
There is a complete destruction of cities during the capture and genocide of civilians. Prigozhin’s mercenaries are simply scorching the land in Soledar and Bakhmut.
Salt city is gone on Russian side!
GJ Russia!!!
Ughhh… Good job on taking salt city after 11 months of dying like rats I guess
They leveled entire place with missiles then claims bravely fought and captured . two weeks later otherside will recpature it . this cycle willl go on
Capture or not, Nothing actually belong to you guys in this Fake world 🌍
It’s not that surprising for them to be fighting over the credit here. After all it’s obvious that there is nothing about “liberating and defending people of Donbass” in attacks on Soledar and Bakhmut. Just mercenaries occupying this territory to use for their personal gain. I bet prigozhin will enjoy his new salt mines. By the way, why is he still not in an international wanted list? We can’t just stand watching while russian mercenaries and thugs are stealing from Ukraine.
how many times has Russia lied in official statements?
How can you trust them?
Ali Hashem was well fed in Moscow and given money to tell everything as it pleases Putin.
Al Jazeera is getting closer to the corrupt yellow press
this is the usual terrorism of mercenaries. It already happened in Syria.
So long it has been going. Why western side haven’t cooperated together to stop it
Russia tried to use Christmas holidays to go on negotiations. But they started to attack Ukraine mores.
The Russian army destroys peaceful homes because of the demented fantasies of President Putin, and once again confirms its terrorist status!
Just friendly competition, now it’s on to Bakhmut, gudda beat that competition soggy bottom boys.