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What went wrong with Russia's major offensive on Avdiivka:

Everyone knew the attack on Avdiivka in Donbas would happen on [Russian dictator Vladimir] Putin’s birthday. But something didn't add up, and the Russians have withdrawn by now. What are the prospects on this front?

Several battalions of the Russian occupiers were involved in the attack on Avdiivka from all sides. They were going to gather in Donetsk in another week and a half. It's right next door. Of course, some of these Russian soldiers preparing for the attack were deployed around the city, and they went to all the cafes and other activities soldiers do during their downtime. The whole of Donetsk knew there would be an attack on Avdiivka shortly. They have a problem with their tongues in this sense. Not only our intelligence, not only our garrison in Avdiivka – everyone knew perfectly well that the attack would take place on Putin's birthday, Oct. 7. This was the gift they were preparing for Putin, a big strike on Avdiivka, “boiling the cauldron,” as they say, and then by the evening to take the city. In general, the whole process. Russian journalists came to Donetsk; there were a lot of telegram bloggers and TV journalists. They had prepared to organize such a demonstrative offensive since Thursday or Friday.

But something didn't work out.

Something didn’t quite work out, so they didn't manage to carry out this attack on the seventh of the month. Perhaps the events with Hamas in Israel had something to do with it. The preparations may have worked fine, and they just postponed the date. Or they went on a binge, as I understand it, on the weekend of Friday. On Monday, they turned on this mechanism. At five in the morning, they started their offensive.

We were waiting for it, and we knew exactly what would happen. They came to Donetsk, Yasynuvata, and Makiivka along with their equipment. They left residential areas and began to assault Avdiivka around five in the morning. Of course, our fighters, knowing all this, went into cover. We have been holding this line in the Avdiivka area for ten years. There is a fortified area, including industrial enterprises, Koksokhim, and many underground communications. It's about the size of Azovstal. And our troops withstood this attack because they understood where and from where the enemy would attack.

The Russians in Donetsk were waiting for a response. MLRS, Grads were coming in, right into the yard, and hitting Avdiivka. They were waiting for an answer when they would fly to film the strikes of Ukrainian troops on residential areas. Of course, there was no response. We were in the shelter at that time. Then there was a serious offensive, a very serious offensive, in a semicircle from Vodiane to Krasnohorivka.

Indeed, hundreds of people were marching in columns, assault companies, and the total number of battalions involved was about several. Up to fifty tanks and over a couple hundred armored personnel carriers, but at least half remained there. We were preparing, and we knew that these offensives would take place. I repeat: this is the 10th year we have been monitoring this situation. Every bush there has been shot. Our artillery worked splendidly, and the enemy forces were caught in the fire.--->READ MORE HERE

Russia suffers heavy losses in blitzkrieg failure:

Russia has suffered heavy losses in a large-scale armoured assault to encircle a strategically important town in Ukraine’s eastern Donestsk region, open source analysis has shown.

Analysts said Kyiv’s forces took out dozens of tanks and other armoured vehicles during Moscow’s two-day offensive operation to encircle the settlement of Avdiivka.

Russian troops attempted a blitzkrieg-style advance on the town in what was seemingly a shift away from its previous reluctance to use heavy armour in an attempt to make sweeping gains.

Geolocated footage showed the Russians had made gains five miles to the north-west of Avdiivka and four miles to the north and west of the settlement.

The bulk of Moscow’s forces are concentrated south-west of the town, according to military analysts.

Vitaliy Barabash, head of the town’s administration, has described the Russian push as “the largest-scale offensive action in our sector since the full-fledged war began”.

But the advance has seemingly faltered after hitting Ukrainian defensive lines consisting of minefields and anti-tank positions.

Ukraine’s general staff said that up to three Russian battalions, supported by tanks and armoured vehicles, had launched the assault on Avdiivka. --->READ MORE HERE