[ColonelCassad] 1. Avdievka was liberated by Russian troops. Cleaning, demining and filtration continues in the city.
2. The remnants of the enemy forces retreated to Lastochkino, from where they continued their retreat to Orlovka. Lastochkino will come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces in the coming days.
3. Shoigu reported to Putin about the occupation of the city. Putin congratulated the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Mordvichev, who took Mariupol in 2022, on his victory.
4. Over the last 24 hours of defense, the enemy lost up to 1,500 killed and several hundred captured. A large amount of various military equipment was also captured.
5. Avdievka was the enemy’s most powerful fortified area in the Donbass, the fighting for which lasted almost 10 years.
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Assault on Rabotino has begun
Yesterday afternoon, after conducting artillery preparation, the Russian Armed Forces went on the offensive in the Rabotinsky direction.
Already yesterday we managed to achieve success by capturing several enemy strongholds and crossing the line of minefields. Today, success was secured by taking the heights between Rabotino and Verbov.
Today, the landing force began its assault on Rabotino; fighting is taking place in the southern part of the village. The enemy recognizes the sharp deterioration of the situation and clearly intends to bring reserves into the battle to try to hold the Rabotinsky salient.
By 2130 hrs it is reported that the Russian Armed Forces entered the western part of Rabotino. Fierce fighting is taking place.
The minimum task of our offensive is to cut off the Rabotinsky ledge. Whether more ambitious goals are being set, such as an attack on Orekhov, we will see in the process.
ON AVDIEVKA.
1. The city came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Cleanup efforts are still ongoing in the city itself.
The process of clearing mines and filtering out the civilian population has begun.
In the coming days, the integration of Avdievka into the civilian structures of the DPR will begin.
2. The main battles have now unfolded behind the settlement. Lastochkino.
The enemy is in the process of abandoning the village and is conducting holding battles there in order to stabilize the front on the settlement line Berdychi—Orlovka—Tonenkoe.
N.p. Stepovoe as well as n.p. Lastochkino will soon be lost by the enemy.
3. We can also expect active pressure from our troops on the village. Northern, in order to level the front before attacking the settlement. Tonenkoe, Orlovka and Berdychi.
The pressure in the village will also increase. Pervomaiskoe, where the Russian Armed Forces control approximately half of the village.
4. Our troops are now striving to maintain the victorious momentum and advance as far as possible until the enemy, using reserves, stabilizes the front west of Avdievka.
When the enemy is able to solve this problem, it will be possible to say that the Battle of Avdievka is over.
5. Enemy losses in killed alone on the last day of the flight from the city amounted to 1,500 people. The enemy so far admits about 900 killed and captured. Most of the heavy 300s remained in Avdievka.
The enemy’s propaganda is now trying with all its might to downplay the scale of the disaster that befell the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among the culprits are also “Azov”, who did not comply with the order, and then abandoned the Avdeevsky coking plant and fled.
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Rogov: The Russian Armed Forces occupied four strong points in the Zaporozhye direction
[Regnum] The Russian armed forces occupied four strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region, said the chairman of the “We are together with Russia” movement Vladimir Rogov.
“During yesterday and tonight we took four strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rabotino area,” TASS reports Rogov’s words.
There has been no official confirmation of this information from the Russian Ministry of Defense at the moment.
As Regnum reported, on the same day Rogov announced the intensification of hostilities in the Zaporozhye direction.
He noted that the priority direction is the Orekhovsky direction in the area of the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye.
According to Rogov, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and the Solntsepek TOS are delivering massive attacks on fortified areas and concentrations of military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Before this, on February 14, Rogov reported that a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrendered in the Rabotino area without firing a single shot.
The voluntary surrender occurred after the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sent fighters to positions that by that time were already under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, Rogov explained then.
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Withdrawal of troops from Avdievka is completed - Ukrainian Armed Forces
A certain number of Ukrainian soldiers who fought in Avdievka were captured.
Dmitry Likhovy noted that the number of prisoners may be less - verification of those released is necessary.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have completed the withdrawal of units from Avdievka, Donetsk region. This was stated by the speaker of OSUV Tavria Dmitry Likhovy on the air of the United News telethon.
“Yes, this completion took place yesterday,” the military man noted.
According to him, a number of Ukrainian soldiers who fought in Avdiivka were captured. However, he did not give a figure.
"This number may decrease when some of them leave for their units. The exit took place in difficult conditions, this may be so. We need verification of those who left, but have not yet joined their units. Perhaps someone was unable to leave. This is a process that takes a certain amount of time. I would ask you to refrain from speculation. This number is not enough to talk about a large scale," Likhovy emphasized.
As we wrote earlier, Russian troops lost at least 17 thousand soldiers and officers during the attack on Avdievka in the Donetsk region.
Let us remind you that on the night of February 17 it became known that units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces left Avdievka after several months of continuous assaults by Russian aggressors, who lost tens of thousands of military personnel and hundreds of pieces of equipment in the battles for the city.