The more than 125 miles of tunnels that make up Ukraine's Bakhmut-Soledar Salt Mines (also known as the Artyomsol Salt Mines) are more than just a symbol of "Russian weakness," which is how the media is portraying them. They appear to also be a secure warehouse for Ukraine's military equipment, which is why Russia wants to overtake them.
The elaborate underground network of caves and large rooms is "a serious logistics center" for the Eastern Front, according to Evgeny Prigozhin, the creator of the Wagner Group.
"Bakhmut's feature is in its unique historical and geographical defense capabilities, which include, first, the division of the city into several parts by water barriers," Prigozhin writes. "Secondly, the neighborhood of Bakhmut is a complex of settlements that create a unified defense system."
"Thirdly, this is a unique landscape, ravines and heights, which are natural tunnels. And the icing on the cake is the system of Soledar and Bakhmut mines, actually a network of underground cities ... [i]n which there is not only a cluster of people at a depth of 80-100 meters, but also tanks and infantry fighting vehicles move. And stockpiles of weapons have been stored since the First World War."
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If Russia captures Ukrainian salt mines, more evidence of bioweapons programs could be uncovered
Before Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin launched his "special operation" in Ukraine, Artyomsol was the largest enterprise for extracting and selling table salt in all of Central and Eastern Europe. There are five mines in total located within the city limits of Soledar and Praskovievka, and all of them are interconnected by rail, road, and a well-developed system of underground communications.
Already, the Artemsoli salt mine system is being used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine as an underground fortress. There are ammunition depots, living quarters for personnel, and even equipment hangars at some of the greater depths.
To "get" to these resources from the surface is difficult, if not impossible. This is why the 125-mile underground network is strategically important for Ukraine to try to preserve for its own defense, as well as for Russia to try to capture and overtake.
"Underground communications are also used by Ukrainian military personnel to move between positions, and the approaches and some entrances to the mines are mined and ready to be blown up," reported ScoopTrade.
"In terms of difficulty for the assault, the Artemsol mines can easily compete with the famous Azovstal in Mariupol."
All of this would explain why Ukraine is focusing increasingly less on adding more manpower to its surface-level operations. Much of its operations are now taking place underground, which begs the question: is Ukraine hiding evidence of its bioweapons programs in these same mines?
It seems clear, at this point, that Ukraine's salt mines are being used for more than just key transportation and logistics. Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's most powerful mercenary group, says it wants to take control of both the salt and gypsum mines in Ukraine for profit purposes, but could it be that another hidden goal is to uncover more proof of bioweapons operations?
"Wait until Russia and China align to take down the U.S. dollar," wrote a commenter about what could be coming next.
"Ukraine is the deep state's money laundering headquarters," wrote another. "Home of the neo-Nazis; pedophile headquarters; Soros headquarters, and home of illegal, America-financed biolabs."
"Not one American dollar or life should be wasted in corrupt Ukraine," said someone else. "Defend America first, not Zelensky!"
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