Feb 8, 2024

🚨️ Some 𝟐𝟎% of Avdiivka 🇺🇦 is reportedly now under russian occupation. Iranian 🇮🇷 and North Korean 🇰🇵 weapons are used to invade a European nation.

📉 And #Ukraine lacks the ammunition to fight back

🍖 Avdiivka has turned into a meat grinder like #Bakhmut
Where endless waves of russian cannon fodder storm the front,
In an attempt to hand Putin some sort of win
For a war whose front line has stagnated.

⚠️ However, unlike Bakhmut, Ukraine now faces a serious shortage of ammunition.

🇺🇸 Since the #USA – once called the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’
Has now been blocking aid to Ukraine for 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 straight

🚫 As GOP agents in Congress continue
To do exactly what Putin wants them to,
Blocking every bill that includes aid to Ukraine
Just to ‘make Biden look bad’

🚨 Meanwhile, Reports from the front are horrendous.
Avdiivka is now under massive pressure.

The Russians have sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the area to try to storm the city. For the time being, the 110th, and other brigades keeps them at bay, inflicting heavy casualties on the Russians using 𝐤𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐳𝐞 drones.

🙁 Some might paint a rosy picture of Avdiivka,
At times, I try to do so myself. But the reality is harsh.

💔 It’s unjust to those soldiers and civilians there.

As Russians steadily advance in the city, the defenders, despite being outgunned and outnumbered, are giving it their all to slow them down.

They’re inflicting heavy losses, but the current situation signals a potential loss of Avdiivka.

Because Ukraine has no shells to use against the Russians,
🤯 They are nearly defenseless in many areas.

Lives are lost because of western incompetence.

Is US waiting for the front line to collapse?

For russia to advance and 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 a few more towns?

A few more 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬?

“Inaction is the greatest 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.”

Intelligence #Ethics #Military

StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Marijn comments on his own post :

On the bright side: the Ukrainian Army has shot down another Ka-52 attack helicopter near Avdiivka, using a man-portable air-defense system.

💬 “The enemy’s Alligator along with the crew has been hit by a portable anti-aircraft missile complex and fertilized the soil in the Avdiivka direction,” Tarnavskyi wrote on Telegram.

………..…..

Another post from Marijn:

🎤 Bingo card for Tucker Carlson’s #interview with Putin
What will they talk about?

☝️ Note Carlson is not a journalist.
Journalists in russia are jailed, poisoned or worse. Carlson is a propagandist.

💡 POLITICO editors and reporters sat down to guess what topics are(n’t) likely to come up during their ‘interview’

So, can you get a bingo?

Note a real journalist would ask about:
👉 Jailing and 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 of Russian journalists
👉 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of Litvinenko, poisoning of Skripalis
👉 Destruction of Grozny and Aleppo
👉 Mariupol theater bombing
👉 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of 700.000 Ukrainian children
👉 Erasure of #Ukraine language & culture in occupied regions
👉 Putin’s 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 with Alina Kabaeva
👉 Wagner and Prigozgin’s 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡
👉 Censorship of #Internet in Russia
👉 Jailing of Kara-Murza and Evan Gershkovich
👉 Kursk Submarine disaster
👉 Meddling with foreign elections
👉 Shooting down MH-17

What else?

🍻 Just don’t turn this into a drinking game.

You likely wouldn’t survive.