Russia has mobilized thousands of troops and columns of armored vehicles in an effort to capture Avdiivka, which sits in a strategic pocket close to the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk.
KYIV — Intense fighting raged around the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka for a third day, local officials said Thursday, after Russian forces launched a major attack on the city, mobilizing thousands of troops and columns of armored vehicles.“The battles around the city do not abate; the shelling does not abate both on the positions and on the city itself,” the head of the local military administration, Vitaliy Barabash, said on Ukrainian television.
Avdiivka, which sits in a geographically strategic pocket close to the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, has been a target of Moscow’s military aggression since 2014 — but so far the Kremlin’s forces have failed in repeated attempts to capture it.Barabash said Russian forces on Tuesday began “perhaps the largest Russian offensive on the city” since Moscow initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
He also said that four Russian battalions have lost “their combat capability” due to losses. Other Ukrainian reports said that the Russians have suffered heavy losses in equipment, though none of this information could be independently verified.
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