“At the moment, in Soledar and Artyomovsk, we have entered the city, into the industrial zone in which the fighting is taking place,” RIA Novosti quotes Basurin.
Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Akhmat special forces soldiers, together with the second corps of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, took control of the Knauf plant in Soledar.
Soldiers of a separate reconnaissance battalion of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic discovered foreign-made ammunition at the former Ukrainian positions near Soledar in the DPR.