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Zelenskiy Says Russia Loses 'At Least A Brigade' Trying To Take Avdiivka
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Oct 27 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Russian forces have lost at least a brigade worth of troops trying to advance on Ukraine’s eastern town of Avdiivka.
Russia renewed a push to encircle the embattled town in mid-October, trying to overwhelm Ukrainian positions with constant barrages of artillery and waves of troops and fighting vehicles, according to local and military authorities in Ukraine.
In these cases, the enemy lost at least a brigade," Zelenskiy told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a phone call, the president’s office said in a statement.
The Institute for the Study of War, an American non-profit research group, said on Thursday that Russia had taken heavy losses in equipment near Avdiivka that would “likely undermine Russian offensive capabilities over the long term”.
In a battlefield update on Friday, the Ukrainian General Staff said the military “steadfastly holds the defence and causes significant losses” to Russian troops, adding they were not giving up in their attempts to encircle the town.
Avdiivka, about 25 km (16 miles) from Russian-occupied Donetsk, is surrounded by Russian-held territory to the north, east and south, leaving only its west for Kyiv’s troops to resupply and evacuate people.
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