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| Near Avdiivka, the assaults do not stop day or night, - MBA |
| 2023-12-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] The enemy continues to put pressure on the positions of the Ukrainian military. by Ivanna Kapustyanska The situation near Avdiivka remains difficult. The city is shelled around the clock, and assaults in the direction do not stop. And the occupiers compensate for all their failures on the battlefield with mass shelling of cities where civilians are still present. Vitaliy Barabasha, the head of the Avdiyiv city military administration, said this on the air of the telethon. "The situation is very difficult in our direction. The enemy is pressing, the assaults do not stop day or night. The Russians are trying to fulfill the tasks and take the city. A lot of equipment and personnel have recently been abandoned. We are fixing thousands of dead, sorry, "monkeys" around Avdiyivka. The guys are talking and you can see on the cameras when the drones are flying," Barabash notes. The Russian occupiers compensate for all their failures on the battlefield by shelling the positions of our soldiers, as well as the territory of the community. "Just in the past day, the enemy has inflicted 46 massive strikes on the community... Sometimes when entering a city and staying there for a few hours, you enter and the picture is the same, and when you leave, it is already a different one. The city changes not in days, but in hours," - noted the head of the MBA . The evacuation from Avdiyivka continues, but recently it is often canceled due to shelling. Since there is only one road to evacuate the city, along which the invaders often strike. As of today, December 24, 1,206 people remain in Avdiivka, which is quite a lot. However, during the period of escalation, almost 350 people left the settlement. According to Barabash, the city has neither light nor heat. The last time there was light was in April 2022. Energy workers tried to restore it, but came under enemy fire. The New York Times called Avdiivka a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region. Taking Avdiyivka would be a strategic success for Russia, as the city is the backbone of Ukrainian defense in the region — and would deal a blow to the morale of Ukrainians. The head of the Avdiiv MBA called the Coke Chemical Plant in the city a "sacred" place for the occupiers, like "Azovstal" in Mariupol. |
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