Yuriy Podolyaka explained the heavy losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdeevka

Russia uses heavy bombs and large-caliber artillery

The battle for Avdiivka in its military significance is comparable to repelling the large Ukrainian offensive of 2023, its outcome can seriously affect the further course of the Northern Military District. So says military blogger Yuri Podolyaka, who analyzed the latest news from the Avdeevsky sector of the front.

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As he noted in his next report, Ukrainian public pages report huge losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdiivka. Social networks are full of obituaries about the soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died there. According to Ukrainian and foreign media reports, Russian troops continue to move and have already taken several heavily fortified strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Some units of the southern part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in Avdeevka are trying to leave the area so as not to get surrounded, but “Russian aviators work in such a way that not everyone is able to get out.” According to the expert, a huge number of soldiers who try to cross the fields come under artillery and air attacks. “Aviation and artillery worked continuously all night,” said Yuriy Podolyaka.

He noted that over the past 24 hours it was possible to completely cut off the supply routes for the Ukrainian Armed Forces group. The Avdeevka garrison is deprived of the opportunity to rotate personnel and evacuate the wounded.

We are trying to minimize our losses, the blogger said, through the overwhelming use of artillery and aviation. On the night of February 16, dozens (according to some sources, at least 40) of large-caliber gliding bombs were dropped on Avdeevka. In addition, artillery of 203 mm caliber, mortars of 240 mm caliber, and cannon artillery of 152 mm and 122 mm caliber worked all night.

“The only question is when this territory will be finally cleared and with what losses for the Ukrainian Armed Forces this will end,” the blogger notes. -…Ukrainian sources say that this whole catastrophe will end in the next 48 hours, today or tomorrow.”