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Russian forces are attacking Avdijivka in eastern Ukraine from two new directions in their bid to capture the nearly surrounded town, which has come under intense attack in recent months.
“The fact that new roads are being tried proves that the enemy has been tasked with taking the city at all costs,” says Vitalij Barabash, head of the city’s military administration, to state media.
Since October, Russia has intensified the extensive attacks against Avdijivka.
At the same time, intense Russian bombardment is being reported from the Kherson region in eastern Ukraine. 117 bombings, in which two civilians have been killed and eight wounded, have been carried out by Russia in the past 24 hours, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, military leader of the county, Ukrainian media reports.
Prokudin claims that the Russians seem to have targeted, among other things, residential areas, which in that case could constitute a war crime.
In the region of Voronezh, a Russian general is reported to have been killed, the region’s governor said on Monday, writes AFP.
“Major General Vladimir Zavadsky, deputy commander of the 14th Army Corps of the Northern Fleet, died in the line of duty in a zone where a special operation was underway,” writes Voronezh Governor Aleksandr Gusev on Telegram.
The governor did not specify how Zavadskij was killed. According to information in Telegram channels with sources in the army, he died after stepping on a mine.