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Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Feb. 20 that he appealed to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to investigate the killings of Ukrainian prisoners of war at the Zenit strongpoint in Avdiivka. Ukrainian forces withdrew from Avdiivka just north of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 17 after months of resisting Russia’s intensified offensive against the town.

Law enforcement are investigating the alleged shooting of three Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops on Feb. 18 near Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Feb. 20.

Through open source research, Mediazona, a Russian independent media outlet, together with BBC Russia, confirmed the names of 44,654 Russian soldiers who had been killed since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Commander of the Tavria Operational and Strategic Group of Forces (OSGF), has reported that Ukrainian troops have consolidated their positions on new defensive lines on the Avdiivka front in Donetsk Oblast.

Delays in the provision of Western security aid to Ukraine have helped Russia launch offensive operations on several fronts at once to put pressure on Ukrainian forces there. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: Analysts said that Russian troops are currently conducting at least three offensive operations on these fronts: along the border of Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts, in particular near Kupiansk and Lyman; in and around Avdiivka; near Robotyne in the west of Zaporizhzhia Oblas

Keeping the Ukrainian military from collapsing is reportedly the sole remaining plan that sponsors of the Kiev regime attending the Munich Security Conference had.

Russian troops attempted to advance in the Zaporizhzhya Oblast overnight but Ukraine’s Armed Forces thwarted the attack, the Ukrainian Ground Forces reported on Telegram on Feb. 19.

While Beltway pundits debate the fate of the $60 billion aid package to Ukraine that is currently being held up in Congress, those on the frigid frontlines say weapons and morale are beginning to run low thanks to isolationist Republicans.With the resounding failure of the vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive—an ambitious operation that pooled billions of dollars worth of everything from Leopard tanks, artillery shells, HIMARS, patriot missile systems, and drones of every flavor in an attem...

Russian troops are conducting a mop-up operation in Avdiivka and are likely to redeploy some of their forces to other areas. Source: Dmytro Lykhovii, spokesman for the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group, in the national joint 24/7 newscast Quote: "The enemy is trying to conduct offensive actions on somewhat different fronts, except for Avdiivka, where the number of enemy attacks has decreased.

The Russian military is conducting a "mopping-up operation" in Avdiivka, Dmytro Lykhoviy, spokesman for the Tavria Operational and Strategic Troop Grouping, said on national television on Feb. 19.