Ukrainian forces reportedly repelled nearly 20 Russian attacks around Avdiivka, in which buildings have now largely been reduced to shells.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in its evening report, said Ukrainian forces repelled nearly 20 Russian attacks around Avdiivka, its buildings now largely reduced to shells. Russian airstrikes hit nearby villages, it said. “It is true that Avdiivka has significance,” Andriy Yusov, spokesman for Ukraine’s defence ministry’s intelligence directorate, told the Espreso TV news outlet.
“Every day, we need results for Ukraine, to withstand Russian assaults, to eliminate occupiers, to move forward,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “Whether it’s a kilometre or 500m, but forward, every day.”