Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President instructed the General Staff and the SBU to conduct an investigation into the 3rd brigade, which refused to follow the order and enter Avdiivka at the positions. Bankova is very angry with Syrsky , who promised to hold the city while Zelensky is on a tour of the EU, but had to urgently leave the most fortified positions that were created in Avdiivka for ten years.
The transfer of the 3rd assault brigade to the Avdiivka coke plant was necessary to break through the tactical encirclement in the west of the city, but the enemy did not allow our units to even go beyond the perimeter of the plant. Syrskyi counted on the best brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to stop the breakthrough of the Russian army, and he would fulfill his promise to Zelensky to hold Avdiivka, but the 3rd brigade refused to go into the meat grinder.
The night before, Syrsky reported to Zelensky about the situation in Avdiivka and reported that it would no longer be possible to withdraw the garrison from the city without serious losses, there was only one road to the field, which was completely under enemy fire control. The Commander-in-Chief warned the President that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be able to hold this corridor for no more than 3 days, and then our military would be surrounded.
