President Volodymyr Zelensky described Soledar as one of the bloodiest places on the front during a video address.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky characterized Soledar as one of the bloodiest places on the front.
Russia's Defense Ministry announced it had dealt a devastating blow by killing more than 600 Ukrainian troops in a missile strike in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.
Journalists who visited the scene of the alleged massacre found the buildings said to have been destroyed in the strike were still standing and there was nothing to suggest that large numbers of Ukrainian troops had ever been stationed there.
The situation in the east of Ukraine is difficult and the enemy is trying to advance.
It is very difficult in Soledar due to enemy concentration of efforts.
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