Moscow announced on Tuesday that it had captured a small village west of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region. A modest territorial gain, but the Russians are betting more on a strategy of attrition.
Hold the line, but at what cost? This is the difficult equation for the Ukrainian army after its defeat on February 17 in AvdiIVka, a fortress town since the first Donbass war in 2014. “It was a parade ground, but also a knife pointed at the criminal capital, Donetsk,” explains a French military source to Le Figaro.