Putin's Gift: Why Russians at the cost of crazy losses try to capture Avdiivka (video)

Why Avdiivka for the Russian authorities wrote an exospanor of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar in her own telegram-channel. She noted that she saw, first and foremost, two reasons why this is a completely destroyed city is so important to President Putin and his environment. The first reason was called political - before Putin's so -called elections, it seems to give them an incentive to raise the moral spirit of the population and the motivation of the Russian military.

The second reason, according to the former officials of the Ministry of Defense, is that Avdiivka was an obstacle for the invaders, it is difficult for them to fight there. "They are bad in the cities. Therefore, they throw bombs. After Avdiivka - the steppe. It will be more difficult for us to make defense, and it will be easier for them to move deep," the painter emphasized.

According to the commander of the operational-strategic group of Tavriya troops, Brigadny General Alexander Tarnavsky made the command to move away from the position of "Zenit" on the southeastern outskirts of Avdiivka. He stressed that the Ukrainian defense forces kept this position as many as possible for the effective restraint and destruction of the enemy - daily occupiers spent hundreds of their soldiers and dozens of equipment in storms.

The General emphasized that the decision to depart was made for the sake of preserving the personnel and improving the operational situation. Currently, troops, supply of supplies and arrangement and strengthening of units in new positions. Recall that in the General Staff explained the possible departure from Avdiivka. According to the spokesman of the command of Andrei Kovalenko, it is important to save the lives of servicemen and the opportunity for counterattack.