"...In Berdychi, Ukraine’s M-1 Abrams Tanks Made Their Last Stand—And Halted The Russian Advance
The Ukrainian 47th Brigade has lost three of its 31 M-1s...
...But in making its stand in the town of Berdychi, five miles northwest of Avdiivka, the 47th Brigade inflicted many, many more losses than it suffered. The roads toward Berdychi are littered with the hulks of Russian tanks, tracked fighting vehicles and—especially—BTR-80 wheeled armored personnel carriers. Not to mention potentially hundreds of dead Russian infantry...
...And with that, five months after it began, the Battle of Avdiivka finally is ending.
It’s a pyrrhic victory for the Russians. Yes, they captured Avdiivka’s rubble. But it cost them at least 16,000 dead, probably tens of thousands of wounded and nearly 800 armored vehicles. Ukrainian losses total, it seems, a few thousand killed, thousands more wounded and fewer than 100 armored vehicles..."
In making its stand in the town of Berdychi, five miles northwest of Avdiivka, the Ukrainian 47th Brigade inflicted many, many more losses than it suffered.
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