*** Warning: graphic frontline footage
Ukraine’s forces have retreated from Avdiivka, a key eastern city besieged by Russian forces for months. Ukrainian troops pulled out as Russian forces advanced and seized control of the city in the Donetsk region. The retreat was ordered to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, according to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had full control of the city, with President Vladimir Putin hailing it as an “important victory”. Almost all of Avdiivka’s pre-war population of more than 30,000 people have fled and the city itself is almost completely destroyed.
Its fall marks Russia’s biggest victory in Ukraine for months. Mr Zelensky blamed a lack of Western weapons supplies. US President Joe Biden accused his political opponents in Washington of sharing responsibility for the Ukrainian defeat.
Ukraine has been experiencing shortages in ammunition and other military equipment. Its army depends on supplies from western allies. However the latest package of military aid from the United States has been blocked due to political opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the US Congress. The United States has been Ukraine’s main weapons supplier, providing billions of dollars of military support since the Russian invasion in 2022.
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting from the frontline by Andrew Harding.
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Russia is losing😅😂 suffering huge loses. What BS reporting.
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USA blamed over the loss of adiivka because USA withheld weapons
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47k losses for Russia in Avdeevka???? wow, and the BBC just putting it there as truth, BBC, you do not know, Russia lost 1 billion people in Avdeevka, and I have more credibility than that nobody who quoted that number 🤣
Those Russian shovels are game changers 😁
The clowns of America.
Ukraine were defeated. I just hate the lies the media makes. Russia wont stop till you surrender
lol love the reporting Russia still loosing if you ask these idiots Ukraine is getting smashed tell it as it is stop your propaganda typical stop the lies the whole world even the American main stream are reporting that Ukraine is getting its ass kicked
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Holds city status but bbc says small town lol
They were running
away from Russian griding artillery shells, not retreating. You are trying to dignified it.
Lords of the rubble, yeah, that about sums it up.
It is not ok to murder people to steal their shit.
Notice all the russian bot supporters commenting here. Note their smug ridicule of our failure to properly support democracy. Remember the stingh of their comments as this defense of democracy just became many times more difficult by our failure to get ahead of the simplest tasks laid out for us long ago by the leadership of Ukraine. Failure is not an option here unless you wish your children to be slaves of the new USSR.
Ukraine keeps blaming everyone else for not giving them weapons and shells…does Ukraine have their own factories that make weapons and shells??? And if not why haven’t they made them yet??
For months UK media has been pushing pro Ukraine propaganda. Overplaying Ukrainian successes using Western weapons and down playing any loses.
Eventually the truth comes out. The War isn't going well. If not for Western support feeding the war machine the war would be over.
Russia retreats forward and Ukraine is advancing backwards, Ukraine is winning but lost territory while Russia is lossing but gaining territory. is it just me or the language has been turned upside down🤔. Thanks to the Non-binary world where Ukraine now identifies has a winner and Russia identifies it’s tanks has washing machines.
Retreat!???😂😂😂 BBC – fake news
Russian won in the battle
0:46 Nazis Symbol :))
They always try to soften their defeat by claiming heavy Russian casualties………always!
Ukraine out of artillery? How? Merica and Canada sent billions?
0:45 Btw i just noticed that these two guys who pointed to the road sign can be seen using the Nazi salute in Telegram but of course they wont show you this 😂😂😂😂
America got it wrong….this is not Hollywood
West: Russia is running out ammunition.
Meanwhile Russia: sir we are running out of flags to put in the captured lands
BBC = British BS Corporation. Why downplay the ‘right sector’ role in Ukraine 2014-present? Since maidan it has been a civil war and Russia is on the right side of history once you know the history, especially Odessa massacre in 2014 when the bandits burnt Russians alive, long before the ‘invasion’ began. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, otherwise this news channel is worthless propaganda
We have more men than the enemy has bullets", the age old Russian proverb is still #1 on the Russian charts.
Ukraine is outnumbered 10 to 1 but the retreating Ukranians are saying" it is Russia who have by far suffered the most losses" ?
To speak coldly. Russia could afford to lose the manpower. Ukraine can not!!
Ukraine you should sue for peace now!! Stop fighting nato/west proxy war! Nato/west are not your allies. Come 2025 new government i usa and you wil lose a lot support and nato country's is forced to pay more for their defense. Så sue for peace now or lose a lot more come 2024
BBC scum liars
Now it's a small time 😂, western news is really interesting to watch.
RUSSIA 🇷🇺
Wait… They really blamed Western countries for their loss? This is Ukraine's mindset? Lol
I think the people in the comment section also want leader like putin, kim jim in their country. 😊