This is the brutality of modern armored warfare – a scene that played out repeatedly around the embattled city of Avdiivka. Imagine over 200 Russian tanks and countless infantry reduced to smoldering wrecks in the span.

Well, its location just northwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk made it a prime target. Losing Avdiivka would open up that entire area for Russian forces to resupply and potentially push deeper into Ukrainian territory.

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