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On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev's forces.

Ukrainian Troops Forced to Withdraw From Lastochkino West of Avdeyevka: Reports

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A view of Avdeyevka - Sputnik International, 1920, 24.02.2024
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The Russian military pushed Ukrainian forces out of the Donbass city of Avdeyevka last week, driving them as much as 10 km+ back from the strategic Donetsk suburb after cracking through the heavily fortified defensive line.
Ukrainian forces have reportedly evacuated the settlement of Lastochkino west of Avdeyevka under threat of encirclement by Russian troops.

"Ukrainian forces are reporting the abandonment of Lastochkino west of Avdeyevka. In their words, the flanks and supply routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were under threat, so a decision was made to withdraw," Ukrainian media reported Saturday.

Earlier in the day, Russian military correspondents on the ground reported that the Donetsk village had fallen to units of the 41st Guards Combined Arms Army, contradicting assurances by Ukraine's General Staff that attacks in the Lastochkino and Severny areas had been repelled.

Ukrainian media have warned through the past week that Ukraine has not yet proven been able to create a steady defensive line to thwart Russian advances to the west and north of Avdeyevka after the heavily fortified Donetsk suburb's liberation last week.

Lastochkino is situated some 3 km directly west of northern Avdeyevka, or about 4.5 km northwest of the city center, and about 12 km northwest of the city of Donetsk.
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Avdeyevka is the latest major settlement to be freed in the grinding Russian advance in the Donbass, where Ukrainian forces had spent close to a decade creating an 'uncrackable' fortified defensive line with US and NATO assistance. In the past two months, Russian forces also advanced into Maryinka and Veseloye to Donetsk's west and north, respectively.
The Russian offensive through the Donbass is widely expected to take some of the pressure off the 600,000+ civilian residents of Donetsk, who have faced nearly two years of virtually non-stop heavy shelling by Ukrainian forces (and more sporadic artillery attacks through the eight years before that).
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