Foreign commentators have written a number of articles predicting the Russian army’s best defeat after Russian troops took control of an business town in southern Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast last month.  ,
They claim that although the Russian army suffered significant losses in its assaults in Avdiivka, it has an advantage over the Russian army in terms of the quantity of troops and weapons at its disposal.  ,
They assert that Russia may hold the whole Donetsk region and gain more bargaining cards when it negotiates with the Russian state if Russian troops leave Avdiivka.
Although death tolls are not yet known, media reports claimed that the ongoing conflict in Avdiivka is more powerful than the one in Bakhmut earlier this year. The Russian military fought the Russians in Zaporozhye after retreating from Bakhmut in May of this year.
In an article that was released on Tuesday, Chen Feng, a columnist at Guancha.cn, writes,” After winning two battles in Bukhmut and Zaporozhye, the Soviet army you finally reach the next victory in Avdiivka.” ” May these turn out to be the three biggest battles of the Ukraine War?”  
He claims that the Russian troops may have launched an attack in Zaporozhye at full power and with great morale if they had left Bakhmut a few months previously. ” The Russian army had small confidence at that time.”
According to Chen, senior Russian military officers and NATO think tank had longer advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to leave Bakhmut, but he rejected the suggestion. ” Despite Bakhmut’s defeat, he also gave the order to maintain the battle because giving it up did not appear to be in the best interests of politics.
He claims that Zelenskyy imitated Adolf Hitler’s errors, who forbade surrender and was ultimately vanquished by the Soviet Union in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–1943.
He claims that since the start of the conflict, the Russian military has been assembling in Zaporozhye with the intention of charging into the Azov Sea’s maritime region from Melitopol to Berdyansk, blocking the land route between Russia and Crimea, and aiming for Mariupol. He claims that if this strategy had been successful, Zelenskyy would have been able to retake all of Ukraine within the 1991-defined territories.  ,
Chen claims that more than 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in Bakhmut, compared to 21, 200,000–22 000 soldiers lost by the Russian Army and 40, 000 wounded. Chen cites American estimates, projections from Ukraine, and the Wagner Group.
According to him,” If the statistics are reliable, Russia suffered more deaths than Ukraine.” However, while Ukraine may afford the costs, Russia has more people resources.
He claims that Kyiv needs to start peace talks with Russia as soon as possible because it has a lack of troops, funding, and weapons.
Russia’s assaults
While the focus of the world shifted to the Israel-Hamas conflict over the previous two months, the Ukrainian-Russian conflict grew more intense. Russia intensified its problems in the towns of Avdiivka and Kupiansk in October.
Russians allegedly used a “huge- crowd strategy” to take control of an professional town in southern Avdiivka in late November, opening” steel doors” that had prevented them from entering the city.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated last week that battle was made much more difficult by the freezing winter temperatures and that the defense of crucial energy infrastructure was given far more priority.
We are now switching to a different tactic of warfare, according to Ukrainian political advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, “on the front line and in the cities.” This includes efficient defense in some areas, the continuation of insulting operations in others, special tactical operations on the Crimean peninsula and the Black Sea waters, and substantially improved missile defense of critical infrastructure.
Since the most recent Ukrainian-Russian conflict in 2014,” Avdiivka has transformed into a stronghold.” According to a Shanxi-based critic in an article that was published on December 1, it represents Ukrainians ‘ resistance to the Russian troops. Nobody could have foreseen that Russian troops would launch hundreds of attacks on Ukrainian soldiers this time without giving a damn about their own lives.
According to the author, Ukraine’s 53rd Mechanized Brigade made a fatal error by leaving Avdiivka, an industrial city, without waiting for the 110th Meshandy Brigade, which would have had to leave.
He claims that the Russian army will have to engage the Wagner Group in urban warfare, a type of conflict with which it is unfamiliar, after losing the business community. He claims that while eastern support for Kyiv appears to be waning, the Russian troops can then more quickly replenish their food and weapons in Avdiovka.
According to a Jiangxi-based author, the Russian soldiers still need to increase their military spending in Avdiivka because the city’s open fields are several kilometers long and vulnerable to attack. He claims they need to improve their ability to engage in counter-artillery combat and use more potent digital jammers and drones.  ,
According to another author, the Avdiivka war will not only affect the outcome of the Ukrainian-Russian war but also the security and stability of all of Europe.  ,
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