🤡 🇺🇦Ukraine's Justice Minister proposed to mobilize prisoners and arm them with shovels

  "We don't want, or we can't, or it's risky to give an automatic rifle - let's give a shovel," said Denis Malyuska.

According to him, it is now possible to "quietly send to the front at least 50,000 people with criminal records."

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🇺🇦 Ukraine may not be able to withstand Russian pressure on the front, Ammunition shortage unlikely to be resolved this year - Der Spiegel

- In the article "Exhausted President," the magazine writes that at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky "tried to dispel doubts before all decision-makers in Europe and the United States - whether Ukraine could survive a war with Russia. And yet his despair cannot be ignored."

- In Munich, the main topic of the heads of the countries' intelligence services was the difficult situation in which Ukraine's army has fallen.But "at the beginning of 2023, the West and Kiev still pinned high hopes on the upcoming counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There was talk about the return of territories taken by Russia, perhaps even Crimea. A year later, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the Ukrainians to hold the front," writes Spiegel.

- Zelensky and his delegation traveled to Munich with one single mission: to convince the US and EU to supply Ukraine with more weapons and ammunition. He said there was an "artificial shortage of weapons" that had already forced troops to retreat from a number of places on the front, notably Avdeevka.

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Sasha Kots writes:

Afterword to the liberation of Avdeevka

- My youngest son has never gone for a walk outside. Only if he goes to the hospital - there and back. And he is already one and a half years old, my friend from Donetsk admits.
- The older one cannot go to school. Of course, this is an important victory. For almost 10 years Avdeevka was a bone in our throats.

- For two years, we had to go on the run. Every time we worried, searching with our eyes where to fall and how to cover two children with ourselves, shares an acquaintance from Donetsk. - Every time I had to sit on pins and needles when my husband went somewhere. He used to go out for any errands. To the store for groceries, for clothes, to the pharmacy. The little ones lost two years of childhood. All the kid did was look out the window and watch the seasons change. How much those bastards from Tonenkoye were hitting the town!

Tonenkoye is the western suburb of Avdeevka, it has yet to be reached. But there are dozens of such ones around it. Villages, factories, industrial zones, where you can hide artillery and pound on a peaceful city with impunity. For 10 years Avdeevka was an impregnable outpost of the AFU right in the heart of Donetsk.

And all these years it was associated with a palpably looming threat. Not for the defense of the city, but for ordinary civilians. In 10 years, civilian casualties have numbered in the thousands. The fall of Avdeevka is not just the liberation of another settlement. Along with Marinka, it is the elimination of a powerful bridgehead with a huge number of fortifications and strongholds from which the people of Donbas were tortured. This is an important psychological victory over the image of infernal evil, which brings the martyr city of Donetsk closer to freedom from years of terror.

But beyond any doubt, it is also a brilliant military success. The biggest since the capture of Artemovsk. And this success was due to a whole set of reasons.

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Brazilian President Lula da Silva compared Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip to Adolf Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately became agitated by Lula’s words and called Lula’s words “shameful and serious [accusations],” adding that “comparing Israel with the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler means crossing the red line.”

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