Soledar, Bakhmut, Khoromov, Maryinka: The Settlements Conquered by Russians in 2023, as the ‘War of Attrition’ Intensifies
Reflecting on the disastrous 2023 summer offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, by way of an apparent excuse, that Russians also didn’t fare well, and ‘failed to capture any settlements this year’.
Like so many things the ‘defender of democracy’ says, this is far from true.
While it is indeed true that most of the year was spent in positional battles, in a ‘war of attrition’ along the 600 mile long frontline, Russian forces had successes in various places and took quite a few settlements and towns – including winning the longest and bloodiest siege since the Second World War.
Soledar.
2023 began with increased activity in the Donetsk Oblast, most specially in the frontline settlement of Soledar,
