According to information from Kiev, intense fighting for the city of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, continues. “Our defenders are courageously defending their position,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report last night.
The military leadership in Kiev wrote that seven Russian attacks on the small town and seven more on nearby towns had been repelled. Russian military bloggers, on the other hand, wrote about new conquests of terrain by Moscow’s troops. The information provided by both parties cannot be independently verified.
The commander of the southern sector of the “Taurien” front, Brigadier General Olexander Tarnawskyj, wrote on Telegram that heavy losses were being inflicted on the Russian attackers. However, the plight of the Ukrainian defenders is clear from the General Staff report on Russian airstrikes in the area.