📊 Casualties
According to the Special Operations Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 100 Russian soldiers and specific fire teams were killed in the battle for Soledar.
Soledar, Donetsk Oblast
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Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post Censor.NET
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Special Operations Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) Oleksii Hromov (person) State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (military_unit) Wagner Private Military Company (organization) 82-mm mortar (weapon_system) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (person) Vladyslav Makhovskyi (person) Volodymyr Barabash (person) 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade (military_unit) 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade (military_unit) Pavlo Kyrylenko (person) Wagner Group (military_unit) Iryna (person) Russian forces (military_unit) Paraskoviivka (location) International Committee of the Red Cross (organization) Azov Regiment (military_unit) 46th Airmobile Brigade (military_unit) Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Maxar (organization) Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Yevgeniy Prigozhyn (person) Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Soledar (location) Wagner (military_unit) Russian Ministry of Defense (organization) Oleksiy Stepanov (person) Bakhmut (location) Avdiivka (location) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (organization) Blahodatne (location)
Source Reports
The SOF confirmed that more than 100 occupiers, along with 2 machine gun crews and 2 mortar crews, were killed in the area near Soledar.
Russian shelling killed one person in Paraskoviivka.
Wagner announced its forces captured Soledar
The defense ministry said fighting was ongoing, neither confirming nor denying the capture claim
The day before, 1 civilian died in the city.
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Extracted: 2026-07-18T17:01:52.776Z
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