Avdiivka, an industrial town in Donbass, 13 kilometers from Donetsk, also risks falling under the Russian yoke. The Kremlin army is “attacking it with very large forces,” warned Vitaly Barabach, the mayor, on Ukrainian television this Thursday.
“18% of the city's territory” is occupied by the Russians who “continue to put pressure,” an observer of the conflict and close to the Ukrainian army said. The marshy north and forested east have been suffering the most significant attacks for several days.