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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian forces have pummelled the town over the past week, a key bulge surrounded by Russian-held territory on the eastern Donbas front.
Col Dmytro Lysyuk – the commander of Ukraine’s 128th separate mountain assault brigade – said he believed there was zero possibility the Russian army would break through.
He said that sending a lengthy military column into battle – a tactic used when Russian forces tried to seize Kyiv last year, and the eastern town of Vuhledar in February – would not work.
They included numerous minefields laid by Russia over the past 18 months; an extensive defensive trench network, dug in three lines; and kamikaze and first person view (FPV) drones.
Pentagon officials have criticised Ukraine’s battlefield strategy and suggested that a large concentration of forces at a single point could achieve quicker results.
“A return to ‘offensive’ tactics after almost a year of defence is not easy for the troops,” they said, adding that Ukraine’s forces would seek to regain lost positions.
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Haven’t we been getting reports for weeks of a potential Ukrainian Kherson offensive? We’ve been hearing of river crossings, troop concentrations, and persistent Russian bombings and missile strikes. Something big is brewing on the Kherson front.
Seems like the Russians picked the two points furthest away from Kherson (Avdiivka, Kupyansk) and decided to bait Ukrainian redeployment there. Avdiivka is also the main territory allowing for constant Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk and it seems like ex-DPR troops are leading the charge here, so make of that what you will.
getting heavy equipment across the dniepr is probs too tough to do on a large enough scale to open a front in Kherson. i suspect these amphibous attacks are designed to keep the russians defening as broad a stretch of land as possible to thin the amount of reinforcements being sent to push back against the breakthrough near tokmak
Why dedicate so many forces there, then?
Russia isn’t missing soldiers if all they have to do is sit around and wait. Their 300k new troops can easily do that with rotations and training.
rotations and training
Not a russian strong point
Have you been seeing at all what Russia has been doing for the past six months?
There’s a reason Ukraine hasn’t been able to do jack shit in the Zaporizhzhia area.
Top Ukrainian officer lied. Russia took Avdiivka.
There’s nothing but bad news for Ukraine on this direction.
All these downvotes mean nothing in face of truth after time has passed.
No, it is the 1st time.
Russia has accomplished its tactical goal of taking important local high point and applying pressure on the city itself.
The location is heavily reinforced with concrete after 7 years or so of fortification. But Russians have taken the place.
This article is just an attempt at damage control by claiming goals Russians did not set yet.
Russia doesn’t have to take the city. Supply lines are targetable by artillery. It is a perfect setup to bleed Ukrainian side if they want to keep the city.
Ukraine is set to loose either way: if they want to keep the city, they will loose lots of people. If they abandon, it’s a black eye.
Given what Zelensky did last winter, he will keep the city and send lots of people into meat grinder half of which will die trying to reach the city.
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Am I blind? I don’t see him supporting Russia in this comment?
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Lol you’re coping so hard you replied 4 times, you fucking reek of desperation. “Please guys, please believe my propaganda!”
And your English sucks, Vlad.
I just want to see control scheme.
I got what i was looking for.
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Statements in the above comment are not connected to reality.
It is good to know that this federated network is not any different than reddit.
At least the beginning of the article sounds better balanced than what i’ve seen here:
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Russian troops have initiated a sustained offensive, effectively “encircling” the Ukrainian armed forces, as reported by The Economist.
After months of a slow Ukrainian counter-offensive, Russian troops commenced their own counter-offensive on October 9th, with a focus on the Avdeevka region. According to the influential British publication, this marks one of Russia’s most significant offensives since the previous spring. Its objective is to trap the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a dire situation, and whether or not Avdeevka becomes part of the Russian Federation will have adverse repercussions for Ukrainians.
In the event that Ukraine needs to fortify the Avdeevka front, it will necessitate relocating some of the forces currently engaged in the south of Orekhovo. This, in turn, will further diminish the prospects of achieving a breakthrough.
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8 years of fortification is lost in less than a month.
Who needs to cope now?
This dude is smoking something apparently
He’s probably a Russian shill
Where is your proof? Give us links, because i do not believe you
