Avdiivka is effectively surrounded on three sides, and the Russians are attempting to locate artillery, Anton Kotsukon, the spokesman for Lieutenant General Marko Bezruchko 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, said on Ukrainian national television on Nov. 8.
Russian invasion forces will try to capture Avdiivka by the end of the year, but Ukrainian forces are putting up well organized resistance, Estonian intelligence chief Ants Kiviselg said in an interview with Ukrainian television news channel TSN on Nov. 8.
The last 16 employees of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, who were maintaining the plant, were evacuated on Nov. 7, Avdiivka’s military administration head, Vitaliy Barabash, has told Ukrainian news outlet Suspilne.
The Russians will launch the third wave of the Avdiivka offensive in Donetsk Oblast as soon as the weather improves, the city’s military administration head, Vitaliy Barabash, told Ukrainian TV Channel 24 on Nov. 7.
Over the past three weeks, Russia has likely lost around 200 armored vehicles during its assaults on the Donbass town of Avdiivka, reads the latest UK Defense Intelligence report on Ukraine, published on Nov. 4.