Human waves attacks, criminals used as cannon fodder and tens of thousands of deaths: how Putin “won” the battle of Soledar in Ukraine at the cost of many human lives
After months of stalemate in the battle for Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region, Russia has a victory to celebrate.
The town of Soledar fell to Kremlin forces – but the victory was brutal, bloody, sparked internal Kremlin fighting and a far cry from the breakthrough claimed by Moscow.
Chris Pleasance’s video guide explains how tens of thousands of soldiers died after being used as cannon fodder in needless human wave attacks, froze to death in their trenches, or were slaughtered in hellish artillery barrages .
