UKRAINE LEAVES AVDIIVKA: BBC story here … CNN story here … Russian authorities refuse access to Navalny’s body … Denmark to donate all artillery to Ukraine … and Medvedev threatens to use teh nukes from his drunk bunker. How’s your Sunday?
EMERGENCY CHARITY FOR STANISLAV ASEYEV ON THE FRONT LINES:
Dear friends, I am at the frontlines now. The Russians are likely to initiate a breakthrough in our direction after Avdiivka. Our unit needs two thermal imagers, costing a total of 3,000 euros. I would be grateful if you could help.
— Stanislav Aseyev (@AseyevStanislav) February 16, 2024
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RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER NAVALNY DIES IN PRISON … according to Russian media, ‘Medics arrived in less than seven minutes’ after his collapse … Von Der Leyen: ‘Deeply disturbed and saddened’ by the news … Dmytro Kuleba: ‘Time to end naivete’ about Putin…
NEWS UPDATES FOR YOUR TUESDAY: US Senate passes aid bill, but it’s likely to fail in the House… AFU reveals that reinforcements are on their way to Avdiivka… Estonian PM Kaja Kallas now on the Russian wanted list… Russian shelling of Vovchansk kills 1, injures 1… Russia’s attack on Kharkiv’s oil refinery has polluted its rivers with oil products.
Ukraine will produce thousands of long-range drones capable of deep strikes into Russia in 2024 and already has up to 10 companies making drones that can reach Moscow and St Petersburg, Ukraine’s digital minister said.
A Russian drone attack struck a gas station in Kharkiv, creating a large fire that engulfed 15 residential homes and killed 7 people, including three children, local authorities reported on Feb. 10. Over 50 Kharkiv residents have been evacuated.
ZALUZHNY OUT AFTER ALL… ‘A decision was made to change the Armed Forces Leadership’… General Oleksandr Syrskyi appointed in his place, readers may recall that he led the Kharkiv liberation in 2022.
RUSSIA STRIKES AGAINST UKRAINE: Large-scale missile, drone attack this morning… Explosions heard in Kyiv, Drohobych… Air raid alerts go off everywhere in Ukraine… Footage of high-rise apartments already on fire in Kyiv… additional footage here.
UPDATE: Five settlements in Kharkiv region hit with airstrikes… Leaders react to this morning’s attacks… Five dead in Kyiv so far… Russia closing grip on Avdiivka.
In other news, Tucker Carlson is grifting his grift while other people stay in jail for doing their job.
FORBES: Russia has massed 500 Tanks, 40k troops to attack Kupiansk.
KHARKIV IN THE WORLD NEWS: How Russia’s war is changing childhood in Ukraine