, bbc correspondent oleg chernysh is in touch with us, you will help us understand what. around avdiivka, why are the russian military now trying to seize it and in general, why is avdiivka strategic from a military point of view? indeed, this city has a military significance, certainly strategic, but also political. avdiivka is actually such a suburb of donetsk, literally 10 km, 10-15 km from avdiivka to the center of donetsk, and this is the closest position of ukrainian troops. actually allowed to keep under a certain control, under fire control, the administration, administrative buildings, logistical routes of the russian troops, directly in donetsk, that is, the russians even repeatedly said that the shelling of donetsk, the ukrainian the army leads precisely from avdiivka, of course, politically for putin, for other russians, it is possible. it would be advantageous to show that the ukrainian military was moved as far as possible from donetsk and, so to speak, protected it from shelling, on the other hand, from a military point of view, taking avdiivka for the russians will also h

my colleague, oleg chernysh, monitors the situation at the front, i asked him what the key results of summer-autumn offensive of the armed forces of ukraine are and can it be considered complete? if in general, then yes, it can be considered a counteroffensive, which actually started at the beginning of summer completed on the main section, it is on the zaporozhye front, near the city of tokmak, also near the city of velika novosilka, that is, this is the melitopol-beredian direction , it is difficult to say clearly about the key achievements, i will explain why, the fact is that the global goals that were declared by ukrainian politicians before the start of the counteroffensive, this cutting of... russian logistics routes and access to the sea of ​​azov, of course, were not achieved. nevertheless, there are certain gains, perhaps not too substantial, if you look at the map, this progress is measured literally tens of kilometers near the village of robotino, about 10 km deep there , the ukrainian army advanced, and near the village of velyka novosilka, also about 7-10 km, there was a