Russian forces press closer to key salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine
Russian forces are using mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said ‘the whole land near Soledar is covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes’.
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