“As for Soledar: the city is destroyed.

The enemy inflicted maximum damage, and there were practically no whole buildings, whole structures left there, ”he said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

Earlier, Pushilin said that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to destroy the salt mines while leaving Soledar.

In mid-January, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Soledar was taken thanks to constant artillery fire and air strikes and missile forces of the Russian Armed Forces.