Ukraine said earlier on Tuesday that its forces were still holding out despite the Russian attack.
“Wagner units have taken control of the entire territory of Solidar… Fighting is still going on in the city center,” Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
“The number of prisoners will be announced tomorrow,” he added, without giving further details.
This comes at a time when one of the closest allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow is now fighting NATO in Ukraine and that the West is trying to erase Russia from the political map of the world.
Diplomats see Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary General of the Russian Security Council, as one of Putin’s most hardline influencers. Putin has vowed victory in Ukraine despite a string of battlefield setbacks.
“The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kiev, this is a military confrontation between Russia and NATO and (between Russia) and the United States and Britain mainly,” Patrushev said in an interview with the newspaper (Argumenti e Facti).
“The plans of the Westerners are to continue tearing Russia apart and eventually erasing it from the political map of the world,” he added.
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