[🇷🇺] Ukraine Withdraws From Embattled Avdiivka Under Russian Pressure

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Source: https://ria.ru/20240217/avdeevka-1927905520.html

The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops, Oleksandr Syrskyi, announced the decision to withdraw units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Avdiivka, located near Donetsk, and the transition to the defensive.
"Based on the operational situation around Avdiivka... I have decided to withdraw our units from the city and go on the defensive," he wrote on Facebook* (owned by Meta, whose activities are banned in Russia as extremist).
Ukrainian agency UNIAN, regarding the commander of the Tavria group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Tarnavskogo, claims that Ukrainian troops have already withdrawn from Avdiivka.