FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy takes a video in front of a road sign with the words "Avdiivka this is Ukraine", amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, as he visits in the frontline town of Avdiivka Donets region, Ukraine December 29, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
KYIV/LONDON (Reuters) - Russian forces are intensifying efforts to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka as Moscow's war in Ukraine grinds on.
The fighting is reminiscent of the battle for another eastern city, Bakhmut, which fell to Russia last May after months of grinding urban combat, 15 months into a full-scale invasion that Moscow calls a "special military operation".
