On the anniversary of the liberation of Avdeevka, the Russian Armed Forces told about the battles for the city

On the anniversary of the liberation of Avdiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Russian servicemen told Izvestiya how the liberation battles for the city began.

A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces (AF), Artem Alekentsev with the call sign Krestnik, said that at the very beginning Russian units were leaving the "Avdiivka tube" to further liberate the city. He added that this operation was a "cold calculation" of the RF Armed Forces command.

Alexentsev also said that when leaving the pipe, the enemy tried to defend itself by "dropping" TM mines into the underground manhole.

"This place is known to everyone who had anything to do with this offensive operation. The famous Avdeevskaya pipe <...> and here, it was through it, with ammunition, with metal-cutting equipment, that they (Russian servicemen) overcame all this way, broke through the hole here and came out with a jerk," Izvestia correspondent Stanislav Grigoriev reported.

He specified that the distance to the point of entry into the pipe from the place where the Russian servicemen came out is almost two kilometers. At the same time, the diameter of the city collector is just over one meter.

On the same day, it was reported that on the anniversary of the liberation of Avdeevka from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), a memorial was erected at the entrance to the city in memory of the servicemen of the Russian army.

On February 17, 2024, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the taking of Avdeevka under the control of the Russian army. He emphasized that the liberation of the city allowed to significantly secure Donetsk from the strikes of the Kiev regime, because the front line had moved away from the city. Since 2014, the AFU had been regularly shelling residential neighborhoods of Donetsk precisely from Avdiyivka.