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© 2023 AFPRussia throwing 'waves' of men in battle for key frontline Ukrainian city
By Emmanuel PEUCHOT NEAR AVDIVKA, Ukraine©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
19 Comments
stormcrow
Get the body bags ready! Putin is on a roll!
TokyoLiving
No doubt Avdiivka will fall..
John
TokyoLivingToday 07:51 am JST
Along with tens of thousands of Russian men and billions in “armor” (If one can call a vehicle that incinerates its crew rather than protects them as such).
For yet another pile of smoldering ruin with no strategic value.
Slow clap…….
ClippetyClop
Another 20,000 dead Russian boys? Well, as long as it helps you to be smug on the internet it then I'm sure it's worth it.
What a weird world you exist in. If Russia stopped destroying towns then they wouldn't become meaningless.
2020hindsights
Thuban
"That road is vital. If they cut it, it will complicate entry, evacuation, supplies," said deputy commander Oleksandr.
"And it doesn't mean they'll stop there. They're looking for a chance to take the city."
It regards to heavy losses by Russia, yes. However, I doubt that they will be able to take the city. Ukraine has been able to surprise Russia and resist their attempts at encircling Avdiivka.
capture strategically important territory
It's not really that strategically important, however, it is very important for Putin, because he wants to talk about a win for Russia before his election in March next year.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Of course the average citizens mean nothing to the tsar. The fact that Russians are okay with this is to their shame.
Laguna
Meanwhile, countries bordering Russia are tightening restrictions (such as Finland). Too bad for those who cannot flee, but there is only so many these countries can take.
My son would be military age there. My advice to him would be, "Run!"
Blacklabel
Totally “winning”
lincolnman
And for what? Why are these hoards of young Russian men dying?
All for Putin's folly - his "3-day special military operation" that in three months will have gone on for two years...
And they'll keep dying...until Putin is forced to admit defeat...
englisc aspyrgend
In the northern sector of Avdiivka the russians have lost approximately 10,000 men for the glorious success of capturing two fields. How many million will they lose capturing the heavily fortified city. Just one suburb of Donetsk. But poo tin doesn’t care, the sacrifice will be worth it for his glory and as one russian officer said, russian women will breed more.
wallace
Watched a Euronews report this morning on the massive number of Russian fake and false news posts on Ukraine and the Palestinian conflicts.
ClippetyClop
Sort of like when you and your Putin fans suddenly decided that the botched attack on Kyiv was just a 'feint'. And you actually believed Putin when he said this.
Isn't Kyiv acutally not worthless?
2020hindsights
Russia are certainly throwing men into the meat grinder and paying for it in Russian lives. As for the mechanised attack, weather will probably slow Russia down. I can't see Avdiivka falling in the near future.
wallace
300,000 young Russian men fled the country to avoid being sent to war they didn't believe in.