Russian forces try to push their advantage after taking Avdiivka, says kyiv. General Oleksandr Tarnavsky.
Russian forces "attempted 23 times to break through the defense of our troops", he added. Moscow congratulated itself on Saturday on an “important victory”, claiming “total control” of Avdiïvka, a few days before the second anniversary of the start of its invasion. The fall of this town, which had only some 900 inhabitants in recent days compared to around 34,000 before the war, has an important symbolic value.