Fighters of the private military company (PMC) "Wagner" in the course of fierce fighting knocked out the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) from Yakovlevka. This was announced by war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny in his Telegram channel.

He clarified that the settlement is located north of Soledar. “There is a cleansing going on,” the military commander added.

In early December, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called Artemovsk and Soledar the hottest and most painful sectors of the front for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the moment. "In the Donetsk region - Bakhmut, Soledar - now it is still the most hot, the most painful," he said.

Later, war correspondent Yuriy Kotenok showed footage of the destruction of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by artillerymen of the 6th Cossack regiment of the 2nd Army Corps (AK) of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).