In recent months, they had been slowly advancing through relentless assaults, in a pincer movement. “The ability to save our people is the most important task for us,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Saturday at the Munich Security Conference. He added that Ukrainian troops had been hindered by a shortage of ammunition because of declining Western military assistance. Here’s what to know about the fall of Avdiivka. Avdiivka is a suburb of the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk, which has been on a front line since a Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

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Persons: Oleksandr Syrsky, General Syrsky, ” Avdiivka —, —, Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: Munich Security, Russian Army Locations: Avdiivka, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Donetsk