War in Ukraine: the battle of Soledar, “a question of survival” for the Wagner group

Evgueni Prigozhin places a lot of hope in the salt mines of the town of Soledar, which he claims to have “liberated” from the Ukrainian army. For the leader of the group of Russian mercenaries Wagner, the battle for Bakhmout, of which that of Soledar, a nearby town, is ultimately only one aspect, proving above all political. With stakes which revolve above all around the gleaming walls of the Kremlin.