Russian forces are turning Avdiivka into 'a place from post-apocalyptic movies,' a Ukrainian official has said.
, who have been heavily involved in fighting for the city of Bakhmut, are likely being redeployed as a battle for the nearby Ukrainian-held eastern Donbas city of Avdiivka heats up, a think tank has said.
A Ukrainian serviceman patrols by a destroyed coal mine of Butovka at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far from the town of Avdiivka. Moscow appears to be shifting focus from Bakhmut to Avdiivka.Avdiivka, which had a pre-war population of at least 30,000, is located about 90 kilometers south of Bakhmut and just north of Russian-occupied Donetsk.
The ISW quoted a Ukrainian Defense Forces spokesperson, Colonel Oleksiy Dmytrashkivyskyi, as saying on March 25 that Ukrainian intelligence had forecasted that forces from the Wagner Group, which provides fighters for hire, may appear in the direction of Avdiivka. It cited a Russiansocial media site—VKontakte—user posted as posting an obituary on March 26 of Wagner Group fighter Yevgeny Malgotin in Avdiivka.
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