Ukraine Withdraws From Position South of Embattled Avdiivka as Kremlin Infantry Advances

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Source: Kyiv Post

Ukraine on Friday said it was pulling back from a position on the southern outskirts of the city of Avdiivka, where heavy battles were raging with Russian forces.

"After many months of confrontation, the command decided to withdraw from the Zenit position on the southeastern outskirts of Avdiivka... The decision was made to save personnel and improve the operational situation," Oleksandr Tarnavsky, a Ukrainian general in the east, said on social media.

Russian troops captured a key fortress in the battleground city Avdiivka on Thursday, forcing Ukrainian troops to fall back hundreds of meters through a gauntlet of artillery and mortar fire.

Infantrymen reportedly from 1st Army Corps had by early evening cleared the Cheburashka Zenit defense complex of all resistance, ending weeks of bloody assaults against a Ukrainian bastion of trenches and fortifications on the south-western outskirts of the city.

Read more: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28161

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The russiapublicans are betraying our allies and are to blame for this. As the article states further in, the Ukrainians have an artillery shortage due to lack of U.S.. funding.

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Thanks GOP House. Cash your rubles quickly....

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. Take a bow pro-Putin republican mother-------s. Fucker Carlson, speaker Rogers, Lindsey, fuck you too.

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8. Yup, K & R +1000

[Lovie777]

3. The elite squad was sent in.............................

the other soldiers retreated.

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7. Our President and his

Administration also have been predicting the fall of Avdiivka:.

Ukraine war latest: White House says Avdiivka may fall to Russia as Ukraine runs out of shells

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-february-15/

[PortTack]

4. Heartless gqp and that's being kind

[SunSeeker]

5. Republicans have Ukrainian blood on their hands.

[orangecrush]

6. I hope

Relief for Ukraine comes soon.

[tornado34jh]

9. Unfortunately, it isn't just weaponry that is the issue

A lot of the generals still use old Soviet tactics. Until this war, Ukraine didn't really modernize their forces due to extensive corruption there.

[maxsolomon]

14. Is that accurate?

I'd read (2 years ago) that Ukraine military had been training with the US and NATO troops prior to the war, and that was a key factor in repelling the initial Russian assault.

[tornado34jh]

15. I'm talking about before 2014, before Russia led the separatists in the Donets basin

Ukraine's military at that time wasn't really modernized. But I have seen some videos from people who are in Ukraine that even still, there are still generals that still use Soviet tactics. Until 2014, it wasn't really modernized and many generals used and still used what they had known in Soviet times. Yes, it is getting better, but again, the change still will take a while. Zaluzhny himself said that the military strategy has to change.

[LiberalArkie]

10. If the U.S. would just let Ukraine borrow a loaded B-52 to fly over and carpet bomb the areas, I think it would

end it and save some lives.

[orangecrush]

11. B-52's

End any argument.

[LiberalArkie]

13. And the rubble would be a lot easier for Ukraine to turn into pavement etc

[LiberalFighter]

12. Hopefully a trap is being set.