 Kyiv reports 500 new Russian casualties. Ukraine's Defence Ministry says Russian forces have suffered huge losses as they try to capture the salt mining town of Soledad city. During the Christmas truce, Russian troops reportedly regrouped to capture Soledad in the Donetsk region. About 200 kilometres of disused tunnels around Soledad are also considered a target zone. According to the information announced by the Ukrainian General Staff on the morning of January the 11th, Russia suffered 490 casualties the day before. It is claimed that Russia's death toll in the war so far has reached 113,000. On January the 10th, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, which was at the forefront of the Soledad attack, claimed that they had almost captured the city, but heavy fighting was going on somewhere in the city centre. Ukrainian officials say fighting is still going on for Soledad. The capture of the Soledad and the salt mines will have symbolic military and commercial value for Russia and will be Moscow's biggest success in recent months. It is a country of masochists. Despite suffering huge losses, Russia is still maniacally trying to capture Soledad. Europe's largest salt mine, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, tweeted.