Late in December, roughly a dozen BMP infantry fighting vehicles streamed down a road advancing on Avdiivka, a suburb three miles northeast of the pro-Russian separatist ‘capital’ of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine.

Since Russia’s invasions in 2014-2015, pro-Russian separatists and the Russian army have repeatedly sought to wrest control of the suburbs around Donetsk city in Eastern Ukraine from entrenched Ukrainian forces—with only minimal success.

Late this December, the…

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