Thanks to the strikes of the Military Space Forces of the Russian Army on the Ukrainian 93rd mechanized Brigade, up to 100 Ukrainian nationalists and more than 20 units of military equipment were destroyed over the past day. This was announced on Wednesday, August 10, by the Russian Defense Ministry. The department also added that all the destroyed objects were in the Kharkiv region.
“As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment points of the units of the 93rd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Andreevka, Kharkiv region, up to a hundred nationalists and more than 20 units of military equipment were eliminated,” the details of what happened were explained in the Ministry of Defense.
Avdiivka is an urban—type settlement located on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River, which is the administrative center of the Shebelinsky district of the regional council. Upstream from it, at a distance of 2 km, there is Lake Liman, on the opposite shore — the village of Donets. The T-2105 highway passes through the village. Nearby there is a railway line in the direction of “Kharkiv—Krasny Estuary”, there are railway stations “Shebelinka” and “Andreevka”. The village is surrounded by large forests. According to data for 2019 (there are no more recent ones), almost 8,7 thousand people lived in Andreevka.