UPDATED. Britain’s defense ministry says Russian forces have made only 'marginal progress' in an attempt to encircle Avdiivka in recent days and had lost many armored vehicles and tanks.
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“The important thing here was to clear out the industrial zone at the plant itself. You can practically say that has now been done, with the guys just finishing off fighters there who are only left in solitary groups,” Pushilin told Russian state TV. In its daily update on the war in Ukraine on Tuesday, Britain’s defense ministry said Russian forces had made only “marginal progress” in an attempt to encircle Avdiivka in recent days and had lost many armored vehicles and tanks.
Separately, Ukrainian forces reported repelling 62 Russian assaults along the eastern front over the past 24 hours.Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, now into its 14th month, has been bogged down for months in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday its navy had fired supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock target in an exercise in the Sea of Japan, prompting Tokyo – a key Western ally – to warn of increased Russian military activity in the Far East region.
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