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The capture of Avdiivka is Russia’s first major achievement in nine months, but it doesn’t leave any side looking good. For Russia, it was a Pyrrhic victory that consumed an army’s worth of equipment and killed or mangled estimated tens of thousands of Russian men to capture a city with marginal strategic importance. Avdiivka is valuable mostly as a set piece for Vladimir Putin’s victory propaganda ahead of the upcoming presidential elections.

Ukraine has withdrawn from the Donetsk town Russia launched an offensive towards in October.

The White House dismissed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid for direct talks with President Joe Biden to resolve an impasse over border security and Ukraine aid.

The fortress city has become the nexus of Russia's winter offensive, and a graveyard for tens of thousands on both sides.

Ivan Sekach, the head of media relations for the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, some units of which had been withdrawn from Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, for the first time in two years, spoke in an interview with NV Radio on Feb. 13 about the situation in the area.