INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
expected to boost the political profile of the founder of mercenary company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose fighters were heavily involved
no official casualty figures for the battle for Soledar, but more than eight months of fighting for control of Bakhmut is believed to have
due to the ambitions of Prigozhin, who has apparently pushed Wagner recruits into the thick of the fighting in his attempt to secure a
he has repeatedly criticized for what he describes as their incompetence and timidity.The former Kremlin caterer, who is believed to be
captured Soledar is the best evidence yet of bad blood between Prigozhin and the Defense Ministry, according to political analyst Abbas
of Bakhmut, it would give them a small, strategic foothold to launch a wider offensive against the Ukrainian-held cities of Sloviansk and
other things, the fate of Bakhmut depends on the state of Ukrainian defenses and whether Ukrainian forces have managed to withdraw without
Ukrainians prepared lines of defense, whether they transferred reserves, whether the units that were in Soledar retain further combat
