After the conquest of Avdiivka, Kremlin troops begin the offensive on Chasiv Yar. The Russian artillery is relentlessly punishing the infrastructure of the municipality.

The Institute for the Study of War has warned since early February that the Russian army is testing the defenses. The same initial stages of the siege are happening in the other most coveted objective in the war, Kupiansk, in the province of Kharkiv. The Russians want to make progress on the front, but as as whole, preventing them from advancing more in one sector than in another.