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| New York Times: Russia's advance has slowed since the capture of Avdiivka | |
| 2024-03-10 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] Ukraine has deployed significant forces to defend the area, while Russian forces are now attacking across open fields with little cover. by Sergey Albul The fighting appears to have returned to the inconclusive battles without significant advances that characterized much of the fighting on the front lines of the past year, The New York Times reported.
He added that there is no decisive action or breakthrough on the battlefield. This is in contrast to the situation that arose after the capture of Avdiivka by the Russians in mid-February. While Ukrainian forces were retreating, Russia was advancing rapidly, partly due to the lack of strong Ukrainian defensive positions. Russian troops captured three settlements and took control of nine square miles (almost 15 sq km) of land, according to open maps of the battlefield. But in the past 10 days, Moscow has seized just over a square mile of land (about 1.6 sq km), according to open maps. Its fighters were mired in battles in and around the villages of Berdychi, Orlivka and Tonenke. Russian forces "appear to be trying to advance using small assault groups of infantry, but they are being destroyed in relatively open terrain west of Avdiivka," said Pasi Paroinen, an analyst at the Black Bird Group, a Finnish open-source community that evaluates satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield. Ukraine appears to have currently deployed some of its best troops and weapons to fight in the area west of Avdiivka. Military experts say the continued defense in the area is likely intended to give Ukrainian units time to prepare and strengthen new defensive lines further west. Russia's storming of Avdiyivka caused great human and material losses for its troops. British military intelligence said that the average daily number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded in February, when Moscow directed a large number of forces to fight for Avdiivka, reached 983 people, which is "the highest figure since the beginning of the war." | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Another Russian civil war. Again, stay out of it. We have our very own communists to be concerned about. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-10 09:30 |
| #2 Ukrainian New York Crimes. A joke in print. Russian attrition has worked for many weeks with minimal lost of life. No hurry while the meat grinder is at work. Missiles, drones, aircraft pound outlying areas. Avidiivka was a sever blow with years of preparation. Nothing left beyond it to stop the Russians. Now the Western crazies occur. Send in troops. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-03-10 09:28 |
| #1 Russian advance since Avdievka can be charitably characterized as glacial, as Ukrainian forces revert to a flexible, mobile defensive scheme. |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-03-10 08:24 |