The seizure of the Avdivka chemical and coke plant in eastern Ukraine was reported Monday by the Russian Defense Ministry, according to Russian state news agencies. According to other sources, that ministry stated today that the Russian Army also took over the largest steel plant in Avdivka.
«The military group Center, in the development of its offensive, took full control of the metallurgical plant in the Avdivka sector. “Russian flags fly over the factory’s administrative buildings,” the Russian military command said in a statement.
According to Defense, the Ukrainian forces continue their withdrawal, while the Russian Armed Forces attack the fortified neighborhoods of the Ukrainian Army with their artillery and aviation.
The metallurgical plant became one of the main obstacles to the advance of Russian forces in Advivka during the last stage of the siege of the city, which took about four months, just as the Azovstal steelworks became a headache for the Russian Army in the city of Mariupol.
After several months without progress on the front, Russia reported last Saturday that it had taken the Ukrainian bastion of Avdívka, a few kilometers from Donetsk, the capital of the region annexed by the Kremlin in September 2022.
It would be the first Russian victory since May 2023, when the Russian mercenary group Wagner took the city of Bakhmut, also in eastern Ukraine.
Russia could capture new locations
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov noted the day before that Russian forces “develop the offensive” and “do not allow the enemy to gain a foothold in new lines of defense.”
He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin receives real-time reports from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, on the development of the offensive.
The Russian leader, in turn, expressed his satisfaction with the capture of this Ukrainian bastion and asked for “eternal glory to those who fell in the fulfillment of the missions of the special military operation.”
Also the head of the Donetsk region imposed by Moscow, Denis Pushilin, thanked the Russian Army for taking the Ukrainian bastion, located a few kilometers from the regional capital of the same name and controlled by Moscow since 2014.
“On behalf of all the inhabitants of Donbas, I thank our troops, our Army and our president for the fact that the Donetsk People’s Republic continues to liberate itself and Avdivka is with us,” he wrote on his Telegram.
Russia continues to press and Ukraine strives to repel enemy attacks in other sectors of the front. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assesses that if the arrival of international aid were delayed, Russia could capture new locations.
Some information about the war in Ukraine cannot be independently confirmed.
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