“I think that in the near future the enemy will leave Soledar and the surrounding villages, enemy sources confirm that the Armed Forces of Ukraine received an order to retreat,” he wrote on Telegram.
Earlier, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the Ukrainian command sent detachments of foreign mercenaries armed with NATO-style weapons to the cities of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) and Soledar.