17/ "What Wagner fears: that the military will push for the Musicians to immediately move on to a similarly large-scale assault on Bakhmut. But Prigozhin must not fall for this, because there are simply not enough people physically.

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16/ VChK-OGPU reports that "negotiations between Prigozhin and the Defence Ministry themselves will take place at the end of the whole Soledar operation.

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15/ This presumably reflects the poor communications, coordination and leadership that has plagued the Russian regular forces during the war in Ukraine. Coordination is reportedly such a problem that Wagner has had to act to stop the army firing indiscriminately on its positions.

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13/ The Russian Army has not joined the assault on Soledar directly. VChK-OGPU characterises its role as "sitting somewhere far away and sort of 'not letting them retreat'. It comments:

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10/ "And here one should honestly understand: there are no fairy tales, when taking a well-fortified area by storm, the attackers will always suffer higher losses. Soledar is a solid fortress with underground communications, which was broken through by assault groups.

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6/ "From a purely military point of view, the capture of Soledar at a cost in manpower losses is entirely unprofitable. Soledar is such an absolute point of concentration of dead per square metre.

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Over the past day, Kherson Oblast was shelled 90 times by Russian occupation troops, resulting in one person killed and five more wounded, regional governor Yaroslav Yanushevych said. Russian shells hit a maternity hospital, private and apartment buildings in Kherson

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Despite the challenges of operating in wartime, the Kyiv Heart Institute says it performed a record number of surgeries in 2022. @radiosvoboda was given access to the facility, where surgeons continue to perform life-saving operations despite blackouts.

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Governor: Russia continues heavy shelling in Donetsk Oblast. Russian forces continued to shell Donetsk Oblast along the front line on Jan. 12, killing one person in Paraskoviivka, a village near Soledar, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported.

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Mariupol. The clock house no longer exists. There was hope it could be restored. But the occupiers destroyed even what remained after their bombings. Russia is wiping the city off the map.

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