Ukraine - Sunday, April 24
Russian forces have lost 22,000 personnel, 873 tanks and 179 aircraft
🇺🇦 (pictured) @Mykhailova_A “First picture was taken in 2014, we’re driving to Debaltsevo. I’m 19. Second photo is from 2022, we’re driving in the same area, but to the different destination. I’m 27. 8 years of war. We’re at the same place. Doing the same thing. Destroying occupiers as good as we can.”
🇺🇦 FSB is now looting the post office workers who looted Russian soldiers who looted Ukrainians. So now Russian soldiers have to file reports to the post office who has to file reports to the FSB to get their looted looted looted goods back.
🇺🇦 Russian forces have lost 22,000 personnel, 873 tanks and 179 aircraft.
🇺🇦 Turkey has closed their airspace, which makes it very difficult for Russia to get to Syria
🇺🇦 Even if Russia’s campaign in Donbas succeeds, their army will still be exhausted and they won’t be able to afford to move forward. They likely won’t even be able to afford to hold it
🇺🇦 Yesterday I said that China pulled the plug on Russia’s back door from sanctions. China ceased Russia’s use of Unionpay, which further limits them from the global market. This pretty much means that China went with what the United States is doing. China did this because they realize access to the global market is far more lucrative than access to Russia’s market, and they don’t want to mess up trade relations with the west
🇺🇦 Ukraine is threatening to pull out of peace talks if Russia kills troops in Mariupol or if Russia puts pseudo referendums in occupied areas. Ukraine is getting more forceful in its demands with Russia, because they have a much strong hand now than they did two months ago.
🇺🇦 7 million refugees + 7 million displaced within the country
🇺🇦 The Azov battalion took a selfie 3km from the Astroval factory in Mariupol. It appears that the “seal them in so a fly can’t pass” didn’t work out so well
🇺🇦 Little movement on the front as both sides consolidate their positions
🇺🇦 Russia has captured 42 small villages in the last few days
🇺🇦 Russia came one step closer to securing a supply line in Izyum as they took another village. They have 25km to take before they have completed their supply line.
🇺🇦 The 64th bridge, responsible for Bucha, was hammered in Izyum yesterday
🇺🇦 Russian intercepts show very low moral. "We're tired here. There's a sniper next to us who is removing everyone. Today he got 4 people.”
🇺🇦 15 days left till May 9
🇺🇦 7,882 warcrimes under investigation
🇺🇦 Some western nations are starting to see food shortages (Uk in particular)
🇺🇦 On the outskirts of the village of Grozovo in the occupied Kherson region, the Russians attached Ukrainian flags to tanks and moved in the direction of Molodetsky, and then fired on the houses of civilians (Operational Command South)
🇺🇦 Marine Le Pen has lost the French election. That was Putin’s last best chance for an easy victory in Ukraine
🇺🇦 Russia is attempting to retrieve anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles that cruiser was equipped with, as well as secret documents and military equipment from the sunken cruiser "Moskva". According to Bild, a rescue ship Kommuna is now working at the site where cruiser sank.
🇺🇦 Kommuna is a ship that was built over 100 years ago. Pre-soviet equipment lol
🇺🇦 I mentioned a few time that there were railway sabotage efforts in Belarus. Apparently this played a bigger role in preventing Russia from resupplying that I thought. It seems that Russia was relying on railway networks to supply them. This likely happened because….
🇺🇦 In Belarus, the deployment of tens of thousands of Russian troops in Belarus while preparing for the invasion of Ukraine triggered widespread domestic opposition and rekindled opposition networks formed during the 2020 protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (Thanks Michael G)
📢 Countries apply to be in NATO. NATO doesn’t seek to expand. Saying NATO is encroaching on Russia is Kremlin messaging. Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the first
📢 Yes, Ukraine has a nazi problem, but it’s a very small percentage of the country, and not representative of the whole. Using a small group to smear the entire group is called “guilt by association.” Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the second.
📢 If you ever hear anyone say “What about America…” in an effort to redirect attention away from Ukraine and onto the west, that is called “Competitive victimhood” and the associated meme is *always* created by Russian-backed media. Russia has three primary propaganda efforts directed at the West, and that’s the third.
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