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Footage released on social media purportedly shows a thwarted Russian assault where Moscow's forces are conducting their biggest offensive in months.
Ukraine has said that Russia's push for Avdiivka in Ukraine's Donetsk oblast involving tanks, armored vehicles and thousands of troops, is failing as they pummel the city surrounded by Russian-held territory on the eastern Donbas front.
The head of the Avdiivka City Military Administration, Vitaliy Barabash, told Ukrainian television on Thursday that Russian forces are trying to encircle the city which they are hitting "with everything they have," but Kyiv's forces were managing to hold them off, New Voice of Ukraine reported.
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Meanwhile, a video posted to the pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepState shows what it said was another attempted assault by Russian troops on the northern flank of the city.
The 26-second clip shows aerial footage of what the channel claimed was a Russian column of military vehicles moving towards a railway track from the town of Krasnohorivka, around 15 miles to the southwest, "with the aim of gaining a foothold" for the exit towards the village of Stepovoye to the northwest.
The fast cuts of the video show explosions and smoke billowing into the air across the horizon and the extent of the damage to the targets can be seen as the camera zooms out.
Newsweek has not been able to verify either clip and has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.
DeepState said that Ukraine's 31st, 110th, and Presidential Brigades "did not allow another armored fist of the enemy to succeed," according to a translation of the post, which noted that it did not mean Russia's offensive in the area had ended.
"It is not known how many more reserves they have to go on an assault," it said, "and today's assault is an example of the fact that the active phase continues."
The clip was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by War Translated, a pro-Ukrainian account which posts about the war, who wrote the Russian troops were "violently stopped. Reserves to continue attacks are still available."
It comes amid Western assessments that Russia's efforts to take the city will fail. Meanwhile, Russian sources on Telegram, such as that of the milblogger Vozhak Z have complained about the poor performance of Russian counterbattery fire in the area.
Another Russian milblogger shared screenshots of messages from a Russian soldier near Avdiivka complaining that Ukrainian artillery and helicopter fire was stopping Moscow's forces from moving out of trenches, which are beset with foul sanitary conditions.
However, the Institute for the Study of War said on Wednesday that Russia had made "confirmed advances" in the direction of Avdiivka and that Ukrainian forces have conducted limited counterattacks "but did not make any confirmed gains."
Barabash warned on Wednesday that Russian forces appear to be regrouping and there will likely be a new stage of fighting in the coming days. The Ukrainian General Staff said that Russian forces have not given up efforts to surround the city.
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