02:30 "WE STOOD WITH OUR CHESTS AGAINST MACHINE GUNS, SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T SHOOT AT YOU [DONETSK]!"

Residents tell Denis Pushilin, Head of Donetsk People's Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine) in utterly destroyed but liberated Avdeevka (DPR.)

It is located just 10km from the Republic's capital Donetsk - but for 9 long years its people had been separated from one another, by a bloodthirsty Western-funded regime that used Avdeevka as a fortification, in what was a civil war.

02:15 We are not alone, the whole country is with us now - Pushilin reassures residents that the town will be rebuilt, as quickly as Mariupol (DPR) was.

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⚡️JUST IN: Russia strikes Konstantinovka train station (Kiev-controlled area of Donetsk Republic, ex-Ukraine).

Building is destroyed & trains with personnel and ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are reportedly hit.

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🇧🇾🇵🇱🇺🇦 "IF POLAND TAKES WESTERN UKRAINE, WE WILL BE ON THE UKRAINIAN SIDE" - Belarusian Prez Lukashenko.

If the West continues to help Kiev, as it is now, Ukraine’s days are numbered. Russia will take Transnistria, and then what's left of it, besides Kiev? - Lukashenko reasons.

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🇺🇦 "AFTER AVDEEVKA; KUPYANSK & KHARKOV WILL FALL - THIS IS UKRAINE'S 2ND LARGEST CITY...." Ukrainian MP Ustinova sees the writing on the wall.

If we do lose Kupyansk, which is a big railway hub also, unfortunately we have very high chances of losing Kharkov, East Ukraine.

So if there is no more [Western] support coming.... the promised F-16s, unfortunately we're going to have a big problem - she says.

With a WHOPPING 18 jets promised to Ukraine, how do you see this changing the course of the war, lady?

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