Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 13 January 2023

Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/Jr7a7koW8O

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/s9NzHapWmK

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) January 13, 2023

Here is the latest on the situation in #Ukraine:

➡️ Russia claims control of eastern town of Soledar, Kyiv says fighting ongoing
➡️ Moscow praises “courageous and selfless” Wagner group for storming the salt mining outposthttps://t.co/0VC0b3XX4g by @SusannahWalden pic.twitter.com/BYO0LoCwW3

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 13, 2023

#Russian forces’ likely capture of #Soledar on January 11 is not an operationally significant development and is unlikely to presage an imminent Russian encirclement of #Bakhmut. https://t.co/LpLeLfWdGE pic.twitter.com/9qtQPH71Qs

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) January 13, 2023

There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian authorities to Russia’s claim to have seized the town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province.https://t.co/xousz0q87u

— DW News (@dwnews) January 13, 2023

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺”Ukraine forces perhaps taking troops out Soledar”

CNN journalists “witnessed” the “organized pullback” of Ukrainian troops from Soledar pic.twitter.com/i5nfDnpHR0

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) January 13, 2023

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺John Kirby: “But even if Russia takes Bakhmut and Soledar, it will not have a strategic impact on the war itself.” pic.twitter.com/nzrP5gefA3

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) January 13, 2023

From @Breakingviews: @pierrebri argues that a plan to use more than $300 billion of Russian assets seized by the U.S., Europe and Japan to help finance the reconstruction of Ukraine is legally shaky, financially marginal and politically fraught pic.twitter.com/4id0L2Y3mR

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2023