Heavy fighting take place in Soledar during night - Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister

Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar shared the information on Telegram.

She informed that the night in Soledar was hot, the fighting continued.

"The enemy has deployed almost all the main forces to the Donetsk direction and maintains a high intensity of the offensive," she wrote.

However, the deputy minister stressed that Ukrainian defenders are trying to hold the defense. "This is a difficult stage of the war, but we will win this war. There is no doubt,” she concluded.

• On January 11, Colonel Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Eastern sector, denied Russian claims that Soledar is under Russian control.
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the battles of Ukrainian defenders for Bakhmut and Soledar, Donetsk region, show how important it is to strengthen military assistance to Ukraine.
• In the afternoon of the same day, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar reported that in the town of Soledar Russian troops are trying to break through the defense, heavy fighting continued.
• On January 12, Ukrainian troops eliminated more than 100 Russian soldiers near Soledar. And Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for Ukraine’s Eastern Group of Troops, said that battles were going on in the area of Soledar, Russian forces suffered maximum damage.
• In the evening report, the AFU General Staff emphasized: the most fierce fighting continues near Soledar, Paraskoviivka, Bakhmut and Klishchiivka. In the Bakhmut direction, 10 settlements of Donetsk region were hit by Russian fire.