The battle of Avadiivka, from the very beginning of the war in East Ukraine, has been going on for a long, long time.
This front was so long that the children of the first soldiers who participated in the Battle of Avadiivka would most likely have been targeted for an assault on the city of Avadiivka.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Donetsk First Army, with the support of Russia, naturally wanted to kick out this big nail stuck under its nose.
Why?
Since there are more than 30,000 people in Avadiivka, the city of Eastern Ukraine, which consists of industrial and residential areas, has become a huge city fortress after military construction.
On top of that, this huge fortress is located near the city of Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk, and the distance between the two cities is only 5 kilometers, while the distance between the Ukrainian army and the city is only 3 kilometers.
As the most prosperous area of Donetsk Oblast, the city of Donetsk is home to nearly one million residents.
Although the Ukrainian army cannot swallow the city in one gulp, in such a short period of time, they are fully capable of dropping it into the city center, which is also the biggest military threat that the Donbas region is currently facing.
But since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the situation in the Donbas region must be under the command of the Russians.
Open the land bridge in the south, block the Sea of Azov, seize Mariupol, this is the most important thing for the **people.
Macheng is the largest city in the Ukrainian-controlled Donbas region, with 500,000 inhabitants, so after the outbreak of the war, most of the troops of the First Donetsk Army were concentrated in Macheng.
Avadiivka's Don army also took advantage of the confusion of the Ukrainians to launch an offensive and opened a gap in the north.
However, the standing army of the Don army at that time was only 20,000, and with the strength of the auxiliary battalion alone, there was little chance to expand the results of the battle.
When the Ukrainian army noticed this, it immediately stopped the offensive and mobilized a large number of troops to strengthen the defense line of Avadiivka, and it was almost impossible for the Ukrainian army to take the city in one fell swoop, and it could only fight a tough battle.
The fighting on the side of Don was under the jurisdiction of the Southern Army Group, and most of the troops in the Southern Theater were mainly artillery, and the Don Army could only rely on itself to fill the battle line.
On this basis, the Mongol offensive showed itself "intermittently":
That is, after being discharged from the army, after a period of time (usually one to two months) of fighting, after some progress and some new damage, you can take a break for a while.
After the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the focus of the offensive of the Don army shifted to Maryinka and Avadiivka.
Especially with the increasing number of Don troops, the Russian army invested most of its forces in Maryinka, while most of the Don army's forces were concentrated in the Avadiivka theater of operations.
The battles it waged and the important battles were:
In August 2022, the Don army attacked the southern part of the city, destroying the original Ukrainian defenses and occupying the Peski region; After that, the Don people expanded in both east and west directions with this settlement as the center, occupying the settlements of Vodani and Opaltin, and encircling the southern part of Avadiivka.
Of course, the process mentioned above did not happen overnight.
In fact, the line south of Acheng is from August 2022 to February 2024, and after a year and a half of hard fighting, it finally evolved into a bloody battle of one meter and one meter.
The next large-scale battle will be launched from north of Acheng in February next year.
At this time, the Don Corps, relying on the original salient, carried out a surprise attack on the Ukrainian positions along the H20 highway, and after hard fighting, captured three settlements of Kra, Visel, Kamanianka.
The vanguard of the Don army crossed the railway and launched an attack on the village of Stepovo, but was later repulsed by Ukrainian reinforcements.
But the Ukrainians did not have enough strength to drive them out of the towns they had previously occupied, so the two armies were at a stalemate.
At this point, from the beginning of the war to the present, three rounds of attacks have been carried out, and the ** people have surrounded the flanks of Avadiivka.
But the Ukrainian army has been entrenched in Acheng for so many years, all kinds of defense facilities are readily available, and there are two regular brigades and one ground brigade stationed, plus the "big battalion" behind Acheng - Red Army City, and the reinforcements of the Ukrainian army will soon arrive.
The strength of the 1st Donetsk Army alone could not encircle the entire city of Azukistan, and the two sides were engaged in a regular offensive and defensive battle.
By next summer, Ukraine's attention will be focused on the "big **" and not on the "old front" Donetsk.
When the war was still stable, due to the influence of the wartime military industry, Russia got a large number of main forces from the Soviet Union, which made the **level of the Don Army, especially the heavy **, have made great progress.
This is a campaign-level offensive launched by the Don army in Acheng next October.