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The city of Soledar came under Russian control. Russian victory was officially confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defence on January 13. Control of the city by Wagner fighters was confirmed by numerous footage from the are, which confirmed heavy losses of the AFU as well.
Despite the defeat of the Ukrainian military and loss of a strategically important stronghold on Donbass front lines, the Kiev regime is still hiding the truth. Unfortunately, the derisive attempts of Ukrainian propagandists to hide Russia’s victory are possible and effective only in a society that has been under severe information pressure for decades.
Here is the latest example of another amateurish attempt to spread fake news among the Ukrainians. During the final stage of the mop up operation in the city, Wagner fighters shared a video, responding to Ukrainian reports about Ukrainian control of the city. Russian fighters promised to show the Ukrainian military how to defend the cities.
The video was promptly voiced over by Ukrainian propagandists and widely spread by Ukrainian media sources. On the Ukrainian fake video, Russian fighters allegedly claim that the city is still not under their control and they suffer heavy losses and lack of ammunition. Ukrainians traditionally used the scenario of an alleged scandal between the PMCs and the military command of the Russian Army.
Here you can watch the video and compare the first fake part spread by Ukrainian media with the original video:
The Kiev regime is yet to tell the truth. The Ukrainian military command is trying its best to hide the fact that thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died in vain, as the Kiev authorities decided to hold the line and not withdraw troops from the city, which was immediately surrounded by Russian troops.
This is what the reports from Soledar look like on Ukrainian television. Ukrainian commanders, as usual, are joking, trying to assure the public that hundreds of corps of Ukrainian soldiers are not lying on the streets of Soledar. This is how they explain numerous reports from the city that came under the control of Russia:
After Ukrainian military officials were forced to recognize the Russian offensive in Soledad (when the Ukrainian garrison was already surrounded and doomed), they are already claiming that none of the warring parties holds control of the city now.
This is how the adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Mikhail Podolyak decided to present the situation:
There’s fighting going on there now, heavy fighting. Nobody took the city (Soledar). No one controls it. Unfortunately, there is no total control over the city from Ukraine either. But there is, in fact, no city there.
Earlier, almost a similar statement was made by the head of Zelensky’s office, Mr Ermak. Despite the fact that dozens of reports of Russian reporters who came to the already secured city and videos shared by Wagner fighters confirmed that the sounds of gunshots are no longer heard in the quarters in Soledar, Ukrainian propaganda is trying to defame reality with traditional statements and fake videos.
Such efforts of the Kiev regime to hide the truth only undermine its credibility, including among the Kiev’s Western patrons. Another major defeat of the Ukrainian army on the front line in the Donbass once again confirmed the impotence of the Ukrainian military to develop any offensive operations, including with Western weapons worth billions of dollars and the support of foreign mercenaries.
