A Royal Navy Sandown-class mine hunter, of the type to be sent to Ukraine
Tom Watling and Maryam Zakir-Hussain – The Independent Dec 12, 2023
Russia is launching a “massive assault action” on a key town in eastern Ukraine in what appears to be a renewed offensive, with 610 artillery shellings reported over the past day.
Military spokesperson Oleksandr Stupun told Ukrainian TV that “fierce battles continue” in Avdiivka, a town in Donetsk Oblast known for its coking plant.
“The enemy launched massive assault actions with the support of armoured vehicles in Avdiivka and Mariinka directions,” he said.
Earlier, the British Ministry of Defence said up to 40 percent of all combat engagements across the 600-mile frontline were happening in or around Avdiivka.
Serhiy Zhuykov, a Ukrainian section chief who recently rotated out of the town, told The Independent over the weekend that he had witnessed “many, many Russian attacks”.
It comes as the UK announced in tandem with the Norwegian ministry of defence a new Maritime Capability Coalition that will involve the supply of nearly four dozen amphibious vehicles and vessels to Kyiv.
Two mine-clearing vessels, 23 raiding crafts and 20 amphibious vehicles are included in the package.
Ukraine soldier says situation in Avdiivka is ‘very difficult’
A Ukrainian soldier has described to The Independent the “very difficult” situation facing those fighting in Avdiivka, a small town in eastern Ukraine that has become the flashpoint of the frontline.
Serhiy Zhuykov, a Ukrainian section chief and sniper currently stationed nearby to the town, said: “We try to stay but there are many, many Russian attacks on our army. It is difficult, very difficult.”
A British Ministry of Defence update from this morning suggested that as much as 40 percent of combat engagements across the frontline at the moment are occurring near Avdiivka.

‘Fierce battles’, very misleading. Should read: ‘UKrainian Nazis suffer fierce Russian attacks’.
The Russians do not need to risk the lives of their own men. Of course they will be taking losses, but nothing compared to Nazi losses.
The truth, the Nazi are losing more rams than they can best into action, and they are losing more rams through desertion. They are being carved up both ways.
The Royal Gravy(Train) can’t park any ships on its doorstep in The Channel to stop the Turd Whirled invasion of Britain..
but there’s absolutely NO PROBLEMO sending its ships to some sh!thole a thousand miles away to prop up some kleptocratic kike!
“NORMAL SERVICE” Resumed!!
You may have noticed that the MSM has switched tactics…now Russia is winning bigly with massive assaults on a another tiny village in the arsehole of the world… with no strategic value…
.. and..
Did you actually know that some Russian troops on the frontline have to purchase their own weapons and vehicles… because the Russian MOD steals everything they can because they can..
most are potato headed gangsters who see the Not A War as a bonanza and the state is now in the process of impounding these vehicles and no doubt stealing them too..which will guarantee even more death…
Several ahem..Generals have recently been arrested for misappropriation of ‘funds’.. check the Russian press..
I shit you not…
The big players in this little charade are just throwing coal on the fire…one piece at a time…. expect a new leader in the Ukraine and another turn around of events…
sometime soon…
Yep, war must go on to exterminate more whites by Commie Russian nutjobs. Apparently Chandala Lubavitch agent Putin (Jew) & Boris Spiegel’s (Jew) ‘World Without Nazism’ government agency aren’t satisfied enough whites have been liquidated in Ukraine by their slavo-mongoloid Antifa Army.
lol, nice looking scow, errrrr I mean ship..
@ hp..
Good one… but it isn’t even worthy of being called a scow… You have to laugh at what passes for the British Armed Forces inventory… presumably most depots resemble the bowels of the British museum.. or its ejecta…
I can’t wait to see all these antiques skippered and piloted by Africans and Pakistanis on prayer mats.. tatty ripped union jack flutterin’… spluttering misfires and belching black clouds as they disappear into the ‘sunset’…
never to be seen again…
Zelensky is Jew, the Azov brigade, Right Sector and likes of Svoboda are Nazis.
It’s no different to the Haavara Agreement in the 1930’s where Zionists and Nazis were two sides of the same coin. There’s actually a coin that even commemorates it.
roger gunner = Commie
And I have made it clear that the Jews are doomed. And they are. Yahwey IS coming and soon.
It’s all bullshit according to a prearranged script. The US in backing the Ukraine is only doing do for the huge “financial interests” referred to in the attached link.
Sabotage of the Kiev-Moscow March 2022 Peace Agreement in Istanbul. The End Game is the Destruction and Privatization of Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-peace-on-the-horizon-russia-wraps-up-military-operation-in-ukraine/5776082
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This must be a record.