🇷🇺 IMF forecast for world GDP growth in 2024.

The projected growth of Russia's GDP exceeds the projected growth in the United States and Western Europe. Sanctions work!

🇷🇺🇺🇦 One of the options for a flank counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in order to stabilize the situation in Avdievka. Now the enemy is gathering forces west of Avdievka for active operations in the coming weeks. These movements, of course, do not go unnoticed by our command, so in addition to work in Avdievka, active work is underway against enemy forces to the west of the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Video from the enemy’s side from the territory of Avdeevka Kokskhema.

They complain about constant arrivals, but have no intention of leaving. They also had no intention of leaving Azovstal.

🇺🇲 The Pentagon reported that at the moment the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd-Austin, continues to be in intensive care. This is the second time in a month.

The US Secretary of Defense will change by the end of 2024 - this would have happened after the elections in any case, but there is a possibility that Austin’s health problems will lead the Biden administration to the need to urgently replace him with some kind of temporary figure who will sit until the elections.

🇺🇦 This is how the ground looks now in some areas of the front. The porridge of water, snow and mud literally sucks in the feet of the soldiers walking on it. Video from the enemy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The FSB discovered a cache of weapons and secret documentation from the SBU in Mariupol.

The Russian FSB Directorate for the DPR in Mariupol discovered a mined cache with firearms and secret SBU documentation.

An RPG-7 grenade launcher, a PKM machine gun, and an AK-74 assault rifle were discovered and seized. The seized documentation is sent for research, and additional verification activities are carried out.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Due to huge losses, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are throwing artillerymen and supplies into battle to stop the Russian army’s advance in Avdiivka, – The Kyiv Independent

Soldiers of the 47th and other brigades say that there are almost no fortifications on the front line near Avdeevka, their positions are often just pits. The defense was poorly prepared for a major Russian offensive on Avdeevka. Since the Russian army is constantly conducting a massive assault, there is almost no time to build anything else.

A huge problem that is being talked about all along the front is a serious shortage of personnel, especially infantry.

To strengthen infantry forces after heavy losses, Ukraine is sending artillery and logistics fighters to infantry positions. This means that soldiers on the first line may not even know the basic survival skills of an infantryman, leading to even greater casualties.

20-year-old artilleryman Sergei said that out of his unit of 64 soldiers, 15 went into battle, and only 4 survived. They are artillerymen and “know nothing about serving in the infantry.”

“A year ago, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut spoke about this method of repurposing during a costly defense.”

The military personnel interviewed by the media also complain about the lack of ammunition and the active work of Russian artillery and aviation, due to which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering huge losses.

“If Russian troops capture the villages of Stepovoye and Berdychi northwest of Avdeevka, the situation in the city will be critical,” says UAV operator of the 425th “Skala” battalion Vitaly .

👮‍♂️ 🇵🇱 🏳️‍🌈 Poles could soon be prosecuted for saying that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, with Catholics being forced to choose between staying true to their religious beliefs and staying out of prison

🔶️ “The entire LGBT community is waiting for this change,” added Śmiszek, a member of the New Left party in coalition with Tusk’s Civic Platform.

🔶️ Poland already legislates for hate crimes in relation to race, nationality, and religion, but the amendment which could be submitted to parliament by as early as next month would add “gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity” to Art. 257 of the Penal Code — a move that would force the Catholic majority in the country to choose between staying true to their religious beliefs and keeping on the right side of the law.

🔶️ “Now — like other racist or xenophobic crimes — also those based on homophobia or transphobia will be prosecuted ex officio and will be treated as racist hate speech,” he said.

https://rmx.news/poland/the-project-is-practically-completed-tusks-government-to-crack-down-on-gender-ideology-dissenters-with-new-hate-speech-law/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 FAB-500M62 strikes with UMPC and Uragan-1M MLRS on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar in the Bakhmut direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of battles in Avdeevka.
In the northern part of the city, south of the coke plant, fierce fighting continues in the building.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of a missile strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment parking lot in the village of Tsukurino, south of the city of Selidovo, has emerged. The use of both conventional and cluster munitions is clearly visible

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Judging by the enemy's reaction. The Russian Army really did a good job at the Selidovo training ground. It is difficult for me personally to imagine the destruction of three full-blooded battalions in one blow, but judging by the heavy reaction of the propaganda resources of the Kiev regime, the enemy’s losses are really serious. And yes, this was the reserve of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which they planned to transfer to Avdeevka. It is ideal when enemy personnel do not reach war.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The enemy claims that as a result of naval drone strikes, the large landing ship Caesar Kunikov, built in 1986, was hit and sank.
There have been no official comments from the Russian Ministry of Defense on this matter yet.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Azov" is already successfully suffering losses near Avdeevka.