 Ukrainian army in difficult situation in five front-line areas, Anna Malia. Ukraine's army has found itself in a difficult situation in five front-line areas in the country's east, including in Avdivka in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk. Former Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Anna Malia said, the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Marienka and Avdivka directions. In all these directions, the situation is tense. She wrote on her telegram channel. Intense fighting is underway in all the five directions Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in an interview with the Associated Press News Agency that Kiev's summer counter-offensive had failed to achieve expected results. On November 30, he held a meeting on building fortifications at the borders with Russia and Belarus and along the engagement line. The Ukrainian president stressed the need to speed up the construction of fortified structures. He specified that the Avdivka and Kupiansk Lyman areas, the entire Karkov, Sumy, Chernigov, Kiev, Rovno, and Volin regions, and also the Kiev-held part of the Kursan region, were the main directions. Commenting on this statement, Verkovna Rada MP Alexei Goncharenko said that Ukrainian troops were switching over to defense. Later ex-chief of Ukraine's general staff, Viktor Muzenko, said in an interview with the Ukrainian Service of the BBC that the Kiev forces should switch over to strategic defense and completely reshape the front line. He specified that Ukrainian troops should build layered fortifications and set up reserves.