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Ukraine: Day 726. Russia pushes further advances after fall of Avdiivka; Denmark will give Ukraine all its artillery, PM ‘we don’t use it at the moment’.

Russian troops launched multiple attacks to the west of just-captured Avdiivka in a bid for more gains, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said on Sunday. Kyiv also announced it had opened a war crimes investigation after two separate reports of Russian troops shooting captured Ukrainian soldiers emerged. Russia has said some Ukrainian troops remain at the Avdiivka coking coal plant. As Ukraine Facing manpower and ammunition shortages, Ukraine was forced to withdraw from Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, handing Moscow its first major territorial gain since May last year. “Enemy is trying to actively develop its offensive,” Dmytro Lykhoviy, a spokesperson for Ukrainian army commander leading Kyiv’s troops in the area. 

Ukraine’s general staff reported 14 failed Russian attacks on the village of Lastochkyne, around 2km (one mile) to the west of Avdiivka’s northern edge. “But our considerable forces are entrenched there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...on-day-726