It is reported by RIA Novosti.

According to scouts, the bodies lie next to the craters from the explosions of artillery shells.

The LPR military suggested that the Ukrainian military doused the bodies with fuel and set them on fire during the retreat.

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.

Deputy Commander of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic Eduard Basurin said that the allied forces were fighting in the industrial zones of the cities of Soledar and Artyomovsk.