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Russian forces have launched a renewed offensive to take a city in eastern Ukraine, with Moscow pouring more troops into the battle despite limited gains. Russia began its major push on Avdiivka, a city located in the eastern Donetsk region that is heavily defended by Ukrainian forces, toward the end of last week. It’s now…

U.S. military reportedly says all 31 Abrams tanks arrived in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces launched strikes on military airfields in Russian-occupied territory overnight on Oct. 17, using U.S.-supplied long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) for the first time.

The Ukrainian General Staff has reported that Ukrainian Defence Forces have shot down a Russian warplane in addition to a previously downed Mi-8 helicopter. The defenders have also destroyed 17 tanks, 23 armoured combat vehicles and 44 artillery systems and killed about 860 Russian soldiers over the past 24 hours.

Russian forces’ ongoing efforts to advance on the Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka have hit a roadblock, with the desired swift breakthrough proving elusive, U.S-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War or ISW has said in its latest report on the situation in Ukraine.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have noticed that the Russians, including their dictator Vladimir Putin, have changed their rhetoric about the Russian army's offensive on the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast and "temper expectations" about their advance.

By advancing on Avdiyivka, Russia wants to draw off Ukrainian forces from other parts of the front, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine or HUR spokesman Andriy Yusov said in an interview with the We Are Ukraine TV channel on Oct. 15.

Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive actions with the support of aviation in the vicinity of Avdiivka and Pervomaiske in Donetsk Oblast; Ukraine's Armed Forces repelled seven attacks. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 16 October Quote: "53 combat clashes were recorded during the day.

President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces have bolstered their positions across the entire front line in Ukraine after what he said was the failure of Ukraine's counteroffensive this year. Putin's decision in 2022 to send tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine started a war which has left swathes of Ukraine devastated and hundreds of thousands of people dead or injured. Russia currently controls about 17.5% of Ukrainian territory and a four-month-old Ukrainian counteroffensive t...

Russian troops hit a private residential building in the Izium district of Kharkiv Oblast on the night of 15 October, killing two people. Source: Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Details: It is noted that the Russians struck the village of Druzheliubivka in Izium district with a guided aerial bomb at around 02:30.

The Ukrainian Defence Forces had 60 combat clashes with Russian troops over the past day. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 15 October Quote: "The Defence Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct defence in Ukraine's east and south, offensive operations on the Melitopol front and offensive actions on the Bakhmut front, killing the enemy, liberating the temporarily occupied territories step by step, and consolidating their position...