Avadiivka is becoming a meat grinder for war that is even more tragic than **Mut, the Ukrainian army has suffered heavy losses here, six elite brigades have been routed, the formation has been disabled, and it is only a matter of time before the Russian army takes Avadiivka.
As of December 26, the strategic town of Avadiivka was besieged by the Russian army on three sides, and the six elite brigades of the Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses, and only 1 of the defenders of the city remained50,000 people, and face a shortage of ammunition.
The six remaining brigades in the city are the 53rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 110th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 116th Territorial Defense Brigade, the 47th Infantry Brigade, and two reserve infantry brigades that have just been recruited.
The Russian army has invested a total of more than 60,000 troops, 720 artillery pieces of various types, and more than 1,200 tanks and armored vehicles in Avadiivka, which are 3 to 5 times more powerful than the Ukrainian army in various forces and equipment.
From the point of view of troop strength and firepower allocation, the Russian army has an overwhelming advantage, and the offensive method is similar to the Battle of **Mutt, which adopts a pincer offensive, encircling three and missing one, and a typical encirclement tactic to send reinforcements.
At present, Avadiivka is surrounded by Russian military regiments in the north, east and south directions, leaving only a narrow western passage for the Ukrainian army to enter and exit.
This is a huge trap for the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian army mobilized reserves from the Zaporozhye and Dnipro directions to reinforce Avadiivka, but more than half of the troops and heavy equipment were destroyed by the Russian army's suicide drones and artillery units on the way to reinforcements, and less than half of the troops and equipment actually arrived in Avadiivka.
Now the Russian army has captured the garbage mountain on the northern flank of Avadiivka, which is the commanding height of the entire urban area, and the Russian artillery is condescending, and it can directly bombard the Ukrainian army in the city of Avadiivka to the south, and to the west, you can block the only transport and supply line of the Ukrainian army with artillery fire.
The besieged 53rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army once desperately broke through to the south of the city on December 13, but was ambushed by the Russian army and covered by artillery fire, and the 53rd Brigade was killed and wounded and was forced to retreat into the city.
The Verkhovna Rada member of the Ukrainian parliament said that the situation of the Ukrainian army on the Avadiivka front has become more difficult due to the fact that the ** aid from the United States and the West has been cut off. They lack enough ammunition and their only transport and supply line has been cut off by the Russian army, and the High Command may soon issue an order for all defenders to withdraw to Kupyansk to preserve their vital forces.
It can be seen that the key to determining the victory or defeat of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is still the ground war, and the few things provided by Western countries cannot change the fate of Ukraine's defeat.
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