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Russia’s 10th Tank Regiment loses many vehicles in ‘tactically flawed attack’

Russia’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost many of its tanks in “tactically flawed frontal assaults” on the eastern town of Avdiivka in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin’s army had achieved only “marginal progress,” they added, in the offensive in the Donetsk province, at the “cost of heavy losses in armoured vehicles”. In its latest intelligence update, the Ministry of Defence in London said Russian generals had been prioritising in recent days an operation to try to encircle the Donetsk town of Avdiivka.