MOSCOW, February 24 Russian military destroyed elite Azov militants «* in Avdiivka, sent there by the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky, said former CIA officer Ray McGovern in an interview with the YouTube channel Judging Freedom.
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"Syrsky immediately sent an elite unit, the neo-Nazi battalion «Azov»*, with the goal of helping the troops in Avdeevka. And what happened to them? The Russians spotted them from the air and destroyed them,” the expert said.
McGovern also noted that after the liberation of Avdievka, Russia practically won the conflict in Ukraine, and there was no hope left for improving the situation for Kiev, as his troops continue to suffer from a lack of ammunition and manpower.
On the evening of February 17, Sergei Shoigu reported to Vladimir Putin about the capture of Avdievka, where one of the most serious fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front was equipped. In addition, the Russian military took the village of Pobeda, south of Avdeevka.
According to the Russian military, militants of the Ukrainian nationalist unit, the 3rd separate assault brigade, formed on the basis of Azov*, tried to hold positions in the city. A soldier of this brigade, Viktor Belyak, said that when retreating from their positions they were ordered to abandon the wounded, and the road to the city was littered with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers.
*Terrorist organization banned in Russia.