fighting rages in Bakhmout region

Only a vast field of ruins remains in Avdiivka (Donets Oblastk), just a few kilometers from the front line, in this month of April 2023. The city is surrounded at East, South and Wwest by Russian forces. She could fall at any moment. A police unit tries to convince the last inhabitants to leave. But sometimes you have to negotiate for a long time. Among the 1,800 inhabitants still present in the city, many are pro-Russians who categorically refuse to leave.

A trench warfare

Time is running out, because a few kilometers from Avdiivka, fighting is raging. The exchanges of fire are almost permanent between Russian and Ukrainian soldiers. Everyone here knows it: the trenches will play a decisive role in the rest of the conflict. Because this area is one of the last strongholds preventing the Russian army from taking Avdiivka in Sud and Bakhmout in NOTord. Losing this strategic area could therefore hasten the fall of these two cities.