Ukrainian and Russian troops are engaged in “fierce fighting” in Avdiivka, a town in eastern Ukraine. “Heavy fighting is taking place in the city,” Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, Ukraine's top commander in charge of forces in the country's east, said on social media.
‘Our troops are using all available forces and means to contain the enemy,’ he added. The position of the Ukrainian defenders is increasingly precarious in the face of Russian forces who have been on the offensive since October.