“In the Donetsk direction, volunteers of assault detachments, with fire support from operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Southern Military District, liberated the settlement of Sol of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the report says.

On January 17, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced that the Sol railway station in the Soledar region had come under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces.

The message of the Ukrainian troops between Seversk and Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) after the liberation of Soledar was cut.