"The Russian military command's willingness to commit a battalion's worth of tanks to an attack near Avdiivka indicates that this assault was a priority effort," the ISW said.

New maps show Russian forces advancing west of the captured Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka, with anxieties ... the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Sunday that Russian forces had ...

Geolocated footage, published on Jan. 21, has shown Russian troops advancing south of Avdiivka and along the treeline southwest of the city. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), ...