A top Ukrainian commander has claimed that Russia’s biggest offensive in months – involving tanks, thousands of soldiers and armoured vehicles in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka – is failing, as he admitted Kyiv’s own attempts to advance in the south were proving “difficult”.
Russian forces have pummelled the town over the past week, a key bulge surrounded by Russian-held territory on the eastern Donbas front.
It is one of the largest assaults by Moscow since last year’s full-scale invasion and comes at a time when Ukraine’s counteroffensive is moving slowly, and the world is focused on the imminent Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.
I’m about to lose count on this. Is this the 3rd or 4th time the Russians have failed to capture it?
Edit: If their current large scale assault fails it’s apparently the 5th time in a row (including the one in 2017)
I think this is the longest running battle in the history of warfare at this point.
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Russia captured it.
It was heavily fortified and lots of Ukrainian lives were lost.