Occupiers storming Avdiyivka from all directions - Barabash

Russian terrorist forces are using a lot of infantry to attempt to storm Avdiyivka, Donetsk Region, and have opened a fourth direction for the attack from the Donetsk side.

This was announced by the head of the Avdiyivka City Military Administration Vitalii Barabash on the air of the national telethon on Friday, November 24.

Barabash said that every day the enemy inflicts dozens of artillery strikes on Avdiyivka, from 16 to 30 aerial bombardments. According to him, the russian invaders are sending very large forces to try to capture the city. Also, the russian military continues to use drones to monitor signs of life, such as smoke from stoves, and then direct guided air bombs and barrel artillery to these places. Shelling of military positions is much more active, hundreds of shelling per day, noted the head of the City Military Administration.

"They are storming from all directions: from the flanks, from the south, from the north, as they have done it before. They got to the industrial zone, plus they are trying to carry out certain assault actions from the Donetsk side through Spartak (a village near Avdiyivka). Well, really, they are storming from all sides. They use a lot of infantry. The equipment went to the industrial zone, the asphalt pavement there allows them. It is damaged, destroyed, but there is certain foundation. They let the equipment there," Barabash said.

Also, a lot of guided aerial bombs and cluster bombs have been used in the last few days. The third wave of the assault on Avdiyivka differs from the previous ones, as the occupiers are more trying to stretch the troops along the front line. Barabash believes that as soon as the weather conditions permit, the aggressor's troops will start using much more military equipment.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on November 9, the spokesman of the National Guard of Ukraine, Ruslan Muzychuk, said that the occupying forces of the aggressor state are trying to storm Avdiyivka from three sides.

On November 15, Barabash said that Avdiyivka is turning into Maryinka, of which solid ruins have remained since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation.

On November 22, Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman of the Joint Press Center of the Defense Forces of the Tavria axis, reported that the occupiers had increased the number of assaults near Avdiyivka.