Pushilin: many crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been recorded against residents of Avdiivka. Now part of the civilian population remains in Avdeevka, the Russian military is taking residents to temporary accommodation centers and providing them with assistance.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 1.5 thousand military personnel in the battles for the city per day. The defense department emphasized that the liberation of the city by Russian troops made it possible to move the front line away from Donetsk.