Russian Forces Consolidate Gains After Capturing Frontline Town in Donetsk

Published on February 21, 2024

Russia is consolidating its gains in Avdiivka after capturing the town in the eastern Donetsk region earlier this week, according to Russia’s defense ministry. “Units of the central battlegroup have assumed more advantageous positions in Avdiivka while inflicting damage on [Ukrainian] mechanized brigades,” the ministry said in a Feb. 20 statement. It added that several Ukrainian counterattacks, launched from Avdiivka’s outskirts, had been repelled since the town’s capture earlier this week. On Feb. 19, Russia declared victory in Avdiivka after its forces wrested control of the town’s Soviet-era coke plant from retreating Ukrainian troops. It was Moscow’s most dramatic battlefield victory since Russian forces captured the city of Bakhmut, located 30 miles north of Avdiivka, in May last year....

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