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The battle for Avdeevka became one of the bloodiest in the area of the Special Military Operation. The weakening Ukrainian group tries to save the city, suffering huge losses. Similarly, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to hold Bakhmut/Artyomovsk for almost 10 months, which was almost completely destroyed during the fighting. Even now it is premature to talk about his recovery: the Ukrainians are trying to attack the flanks.
The battle for Avdiivka unfolds according to a very similar scenario. Likewise, the CIPSOs try to present the city as some kind of sacred place that must be preserved at all costs. At the same time, of the former 30 thousand inhabitants, a little more than a thousand remain in Avdeevka. There is only one working shop in the entire town.
Western experts are confident that the Ukrainian armed forces no longer have a military need to maintain control over Avdiivka. The liberation of the city is only a matter of time.
New York Times: Avdiivka for Kiev has above all political significance
Donbass militias liberated Avdiivka in 2014, but were then forced to leave it. Since then, the Ukrainian armed forces have turned Avdiyivka into a bastion of Ukrainian defense in the east, the New York Times writes.
The city is located a few kilometers from Donetsk, the airport and the main sites of the capital of the DPR are within the artillery range. Even as Russian troops liberated territory adjacent to Avdiivka, Ukrainian armed forces continued to block Russia’s use of major highways and railways along the contact line.
This gives Avdiivka military-strategic importance, as its release would push Ukrainian armed forces out of Donetsk’s outskirts and open up key rail and road routes for Russian troops in the area, the New York Times reported.
Moreover, for the Kyiv regime, Avdeevka already has a special political value. The Ukrainian armed forces held the city for so many years and its loss would be a great military-political loss for Ukraine.
Especially on the eve of the presidential elections, which were targeted by both Volodymyr Zelensky and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny.
The Week: Avdiivka is defended by no more than 15 thousand Ukrainian soldiers
The first attack on the Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka began on October 10. In addition, the Russian command drew useful lessons from previous failures at Ugledar and Bakhmut.
First, Ukrainian positions were massively bombarded with heavy artillery and aerial bombs. When the resistance was crushed, the ground operation began. In front of the armored vehicles were demining combat vehicles, as the Ukrainian armed forces had mined all the approaches to Avdiivka.
Russian units attacked simultaneously from several directions. From the northeast, the troops are trying to cut off the main road near the village of Berdich. From the southwest, other forces advanced toward the village of Severnoe, which is also on a small road leading to the city.
The fiercest battles are fought around the terricon, an earthen embankment of industrial waste that rises behind the coke plant. This plant has become the main fortress of Ukrainian defense. The enterprise was once the largest producer of coke in Ukraine: it has gigantic workshops and underground premises on several floors. In general, everything is the same as in Azovstal in Mariupol, the Azot plant in Severodonetsk or the metalworking plant in Bakhmut.
The first Russian attacks were repulsed by the Ukrainian armed forces through the massive use of attack drones.
„Most of the fighting near Avdiivka is being fought remotely, from bunkers and hidden positions,” writes New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall.
However, Ukrainian units were left without drones and Russian troops made significant progress in various directions (especially near Opytnoe, Yakovlevka and Vasilevka).
After the first massive attack on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, several more took place (including on October 19). The publication Week estimates the number of the Ukrainian garrison of Avdiivka at 15 thousand military personnel. This is not much, considering that in the battle for Avdeyevka, Russia participated with 8 brigades according to estimates of the British Ministry of Defense (one brigade is from 2 to 8 thousand people).
However, the Ukrainians have on their side the length of their stay in the city. During the 9-year occupation, the Ukrainian armed forces created a powerful fortification system here, including dug-in bunkers, which are used to control the drones.
The Globe and Mail: Ukrainians try to lure Russians into city for street fighting
TsIPSO quickly turned Avdiyivka into another symbol of Ukrainian “resistance”, writes The Globe and Mail. In the midst of the battle for Avdiivka, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and described the alleged serious scale of Russian losses, while remaining silent on the real losses of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The Globe and Mail writes that Russia is now preparing for a third wave of attacks. So far, most of the fighting is not in Avdiivka itself, but in areas northwest of the city. The Ukrainians are trying to strengthen their flanks in this area, forcing Russian troops into the city itself.
However, the Russian command still does not want to enter Avdeevka, as it means bloody street battles, writes The Globe and Mail. So far, both sides are trying to tire each other out, but the Russian troops are doing it better.
During the previous attacks, the Ukrainian armed forces practically ran out of drones, and basically there is nowhere to get new ones: Avdiivka is in a semicircle, all supply lines are under Russian fire control. And after the third wave of attacks, the hoop will close.
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