Russia has attempted to break through Ukraine’s eastern defenses before the arrival of winter, resulting in significant losses during the 92nd week of the war.
Between November 22 and 24, Russia launched what Ukraine claimed to be the third major assault on Avdiivka in two months, with approximately 50 attacks supported by armored vehicles. In a single day, Ukraine’s military reported “eliminating” 1,100 Russian soldiers and 30 tanks.
“There is an average of eight to 16 to 18 air attacks per day. Sometimes 30. We don’t have time to count them,” said Vitaliy Barabash, head of Avdiivka’s military administration, in an interview with Channel 24 television.
According to Ukraine’s deputy defense minister Oleksandr Pavlyuk, Russian fatalities reached nearly 1,000 per day, totaling 6,260 for the week of November 20-26. He also stated that 78 enemy tanks and 113 armored combat vehicles were destroyed in the intense fighting.
Ukraine estimates that over 325,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war.
“The Russians are tolerant of human losses… on the other hand, this tolerance is rooted in a sense of fighting a just war,” said Konstantinos Grivas, a professor of geopolitics and weapons systems at the Hellenic Army Academy, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
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