Bulwark against Putin fallen: Chaos retreat from Avdiivka - Ukrainians are probably leaving soldiers behind. In many places, Ukrainian armed forces have been under heavy pressure on many sectors of the front.

Russian military bloggers distributed a drone video that clearly documents how Russian soldiers hoist their country's flag on the former coking plant in the industrial city. According to Western estimates, Moscow has accepted the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers through death or injury since mid-October in order to take the symbolic small town with a former population of 32,000.