Ukrainian troops withdrew from the devastated Avdiivka, Kyiv's military chief said on Saturday.

The announcement also comes as Ukraine faces acute shortages of ammunition, with U.S. military aid delayed for months in Congress.

The loss of the town, therefore, may give President Volodymyr Zelensky a stronger case to ask the West for more urgent military aid.

At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, he said an "artificial" shortage of weapons was strengthening Putin's forces on the battlefield.

This comes as the conflict's second anniversary nears.

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