"The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers," Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement. Minutes earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said fighting continued.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren,)
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(Reuters) - The head of Russia's private military firm Wagner on Wednesday said his forces had completely liberated the eastern Ukrainian mining town of Soledar, killing around 500 pro-Ukraine troops.
"The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers," Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a statement. Minutes earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said fighting continued.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren,)