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

🇺🇲❗️Biden's national security adviser Sullivan said that he would personally hold a briefing on Thursday for congressional leaders on some “threat to national security”; he refused to specify the information

🇺🇲❗️The head of the House Intelligence Committee called on Biden to declassify all information about an unnamed threat to national security

🇺🇲⚡️"Serious threat to US national security" refers to a possible "foreign threat", the problem could lead to destabilization of the situation - media

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡️The CNN channel, citing sources, suggested that the “threat to national security” discussed in the United States may be associated with certain “capabilities of the Russian Federation”

A Russian space nuke absolutely makes sense in military terms:

A high-altitude Nuclear-EMP creates an electric free field incident powerful enough to damage any microcircuitry onboard satellites (see: Starfish Prime Test), especially modern electronics due to increasingly thin structures (therefore electric breakthrough occurs already at relatively low voltages). We are hardening military systems against such EM incidents by shielding, e.g. on a ship using its hull as a Faraday cage. This can't be done on a satellite due to weight constraints.

First, a space nuke would disable recon satellites, both RF (radio frequency) and EO (electro optical), therefore making command blind. Second, it would disable GPS, therefore severely reducing effectiveness of ballistic and cruise missiles guidance (inertial guidance is drifting over time, losing accuracy over longer distances). Third, communication satellites (military but also commercial such as Starlink) would be disabled, leaving troops without orders in time of crisis. Finally, radars are cluttered for days by charged particles bouncing along earth's magnetic field lines, emitting EMI, making air defense and air operations almost impossible.

It would instantaneously nullify most of the US most powerful military assets. It's the ultimate preemptive strike weapon, so it's clear why they would be concerned.

Of course no WW3 will break out, but instead they will use this to beg for more money (as always) to spend on useless high-altitude air defense systems (mainly LMT & RTX, over years to come).

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The defeat of the American Stryker armored personnel carrier by the Lancet in the Zaporozhye direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 ❗️The Ukrainian army is retreating to “more advantageous positions” in Avdeevka, said Dmitry Likhovy, speaker of the Tavria Armed Forces of Ukraine group.

“In Avdiivka, a maneuver is taking place where our units are withdrawing to more advantageous positions. Supplies to Avdeevka and evacuation from there are difficult. But a reserve logistics artery, prepared in advance, is being used,” Likhovy said on the Ukrainian telethon.

Let us recall that the day before, the main logistics artery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces between the southern and northern parts of Avdiivka was cut off , and Russian units continue to build on their success, trying to encircle the defensive positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It is also reported that the Vinogradniki stronghold (located on the territory of a cottage village) in the Avdeevka direction has been captured.

🇺🇲 Failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten (c) Biden

Biden signed off on the fact that the attempt to forcefully push the Ukraine aid bill through the Senate ended in failure. And, as expected, he blamed the Republicans for this.