Russian forces are trying to encircle Avdiivka and clear a path on the eastern front toward Vladimir Putin’s goal of conquering the entire Donetsk region.
An official from Avdiivka's military administration holds a tarpaulin for delivery and walks past a destroyed building on Oct. 24. Ukrainian forces are coming under increased pressure as Russia’s military drives to capture the destroyed city.
Kyiv is drawing on resources that otherwise might be focused on its counteroffensive to oust Russian occupiers.that Russia has lost a significant amount of military equipment attacking Avdiivka. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday that Moscow had lost an entire brigade of fighters. Those assertions could not be independently verified.
The head of Avdiivka’s military administration, Vitalii Barabash, said that Russia’s recent attacks were unlike anything he had seen in nearly a decade of fighting, with Moscow deploying huge numbers of personnel and equipment. In recent days, Russian forces advanced past Krasnohorivka four miles north of Avdiivka, toward the city’s railroad. On Tuesday, Moscow claimed it had captured the plant’s slag heap — a tactical blow to Ukraine.
Barabash and his team were in the city to document the impact of seven missile strikes that hit overnight. As he spoke, explosions rang out close by. “That is a Zushka,” he said, referring to a ZU-23 antiaircraft cannon. “There might be a Russian Orlan drone flying somewhere, they are trying to shoot it down,” he said.
At a local distribution point, aid workers were visibly exhausted. The location had been closed for a week due to intense shelling and fear that Russia would target the lines of citizens seeking help.
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