General Staff: Russia suffers heavy losses during massive assault on Avdiyivka

Ukraine’s Armed Forces repelled 18 Russian attacks in the Avdiyivka sector in the Donetsk Oblast (eastern Ukraine) within the last 24 hours, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported in its daily frontline update on 11 October 2023.

According to Ukraine’s General Staff, the Russian army sustained heavy losses over the past 24 hours during its offensive operations, losing 91 armored vehicles and 34 tanks.

Russia's estimated losses on day 595 of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, according to Ukraine's General Staff. pic.twitter.com/9KX5RA6Ddu

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Within 24 hours, the Russian army launched one missile strike and 36 air strikes. Apart from air strikes, Russian troops used multiple rocket launchers to shell the positions of Ukrainian forces and residential areas of Ukrainian towns 35 times, the General Staff reported. Russian attacks resulted in civilian casualties and injuries. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.

Over the last day, there were around 72 combat engagements (three combat engagements less than yesterday) between Ukrainian defenders and invading Russian troops, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.

In the Avdiyivka sector (Donetsk Oblast), the Ukrainian defenders are holding the line, according to the General Staff. Ukrainian troops repelled ten Russian attacks near Avdiyivka and another eight attacks in the areas east of Stepove and southeast of Sievierne in the Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 6 units of Russian occupiers' armored vehicles in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian defenders hit 2 Russian tanks, 3 armored personnel carriers, and 1 armored personnel carrier by ATGMs.

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