Ukrainian resistance in a flashpoint industrial town is near a breaking point amid renewed Russian onslaughts, a local official said.
Russian forces have redoubled their efforts to surround—and capture—the eastern town of Avdiivka, according to a local Ukrainian military official.
“Things in the Avdiivka sector have become even tougher,” Vitaliy Barabash, the town’s Kyiv-appointed military governor, told local media on Nov. 27.
“The intensity of clashes has been increasing for some time,” he added.
Avdiivka is located some 30 miles south of the city of Bakhmut, which fell to Russian forces in May after nine months of fighting.
Home to a large coking plant and industrial zone, Avdiivka sits 12 miles west of Donetsk city, capital of the Russian-held region of the same name.
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On Nov. 27, reports emerged—still unconfirmed—that Russian troops had overrun the industrial zone and were now attempting to capture the coking plant.
Fighting has raged in Avdiivka since mid-October, when a months-long Ukrainian…
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