The summer counteroffensive in Ukraine didn’t go very well, as most honest analysts have already admitted. But now, the small amount of progress that Ukrainian forces made appears to be reversing in some areas. Russian forces have been slowly advancing in Avdiivka, a city in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. However, those gains have been coming at a terrible price to the Russians as well as the Ukrainians. The Russian forces have suffered hundreds of casualties in that region and the fighting has reportedly been brutal. Ukraine hasn’t run out of drones or bombs yet and they have been using them to terrible effect on the advancing forces of the Kremlin. The Associated Press received a video shot by one of the drones showing the carnage outside of Avdiivka in a wooded area. As we say here repeatedly, bad things happen in war.
As Russian forces press forward with an…