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Russian army ‘overextended’ as Kyiv warns any peace talks are a ‘trap’ to help Putin. Ukraine has warned that any peace talks with Russia are a “trap” that will lead to the Kremlin “violating” the agreement and using to gain more territory.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...44508.html

The 69-ton, four-person Leopard 2A6 with its extra-long, 55-caliber main gun is one of the best tanks against Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine. But it also is an endangered species in Ukrainian service.

Don’t tell that to the 47th Brigade’s sole tank battalion. The 47th Brigade’s tankers are as aggressive now as they have been at any point in the brigade’s five-month first rotation, which began in early June when the unit led one of the initial—and disastrous—assaults kicking off Kyiv’s long-anticipated southern counteroffensive.

After leading the attack in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast for four months, the 47th Brigade in October redeployed to eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. There, it reinforced the Ukrainian garrison in Avdiivka, which for a month now has been under relentless assault by a multi-brigade Russian force.

The 47th Brigade brought with it its hundred or so American-made M-2 infantry fighting vehicles and its 18 surviving Leopard 2A6s. Arriving on Avdiivka’s vulnerable northern flank, the brigade immediately rolled into action