Russian forces have lost about a battalion's worth of vehicles, including 15 tanks, during a two-day period of its assault on the settlement of Avdiivka.Open-source intelligence account OSINTtechnical said dozens of Russian military vehicles had been lost as the Kremlin ramped up its offensive toward Ukrainian-held Avdiivka just north of the city Donetsk, which is in the region of the same name, in the east of Ukraine.
'So, Avdiivka is an attempt at a local counterattack to distract Ukrainian forces. Russian commenders seem under instruction from the Kremlin to attack all across the front while they play for time until the weather turns.'There isn't much operational grand strategy behind it, just the grand strategy of handing on and not losing.