Uh-uh. They conquered the garbage heap! Literally.
It is amusing to read how the russian trolls try to adapt the narrative to whats happening. One version was that the plan was never to capture Avdiivka, but rather to engage the enemy in a massive fight they couldnt back down from and just kill as many opponents as possible. Not what anyone claimed at the start ofc, but not an unknown tactic, a bit like their own Verdun I guess. So why havent they closed the gap to capture all those ukrainians in a classic envelopment? No no thats not how the russian generals think, they deliberately keep it open to trick even more ukrainians into the cauldron! And then they kill them all I guess. The advantage is that even if they are forced to give up the whole thing and fall back (looks likely), they can just claim that the job is done totally to plan and a million+ enemies have been killed.
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Uh-uh. They conquered the garbage heap! Literally.
It is amusing to read how the russian trolls try to adapt the narrative to whats happening. One version was that the plan was never to capture Avdiivka, but rather to engage the enemy in a massive fight they couldnt back down from and just kill as many opponents as possible. Not what anyone claimed at the start ofc, but not an unknown tactic, a bit like their own Verdun I guess. So why havent they closed the gap to capture all those ukrainians in a classic envelopment? No no thats not how the russian generals think, they deliberately keep it open to trick even more ukrainians into the cauldron! And then they kill them all I guess. The advantage is that even if they are forced to give up the whole thing and fall back (looks likely), they can just claim that the job is done totally to plan and a million+ enemies have been killed.