Earlier, the private military company claimed it had the town under its control
RT has obtained exclusive footage shot in a salt mine located on the outskirts of the Donbass town of Soledar, which has recently seen intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops. It shows businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and members of his private military company, the Wagner Group, touring the facility.
In the video a soldier remarks that as the group had been walking for two kilometers, Ukrainian troops were “above our heads,” adding that this was “temporary.”
The mines which gave the Donbass town its name (Soledar means “gift of salt” in English) comprise a giant system of cavernous tunnels. They have an estimated combined length of some 300km and reach hundreds of meters underground.
The production of salt began over a century ago and reached a massive scale in Soviet times. Some of the depleted tunnels were repurposed for tourism and therapy, while others were reportedly used to store a massive stockpile of weapons that the Red Army used during World War II....More Below
