🇷🇺🇺🇦 Western Media Gears Up for Ukrainian Loss of Avdeevka

▪️Newsweek, in a now familiar pattern, is softening the inevitable loss of Avdeevka by describing it as a "wasteland, " implying it has no value;

▪️It claims Russia has lost nearly 9,000 troops in November (300/day) citing dubious Ukrainian sources;

▪️As with Bakhmut, the claim is "while Russia took the city, it has no value, it did so "too slowly," & lost 1,000s of troops in the process," implying it was a "trap" laid by Ukraine;

▪️If any of this were actually true, Ukraine wouldn't be shifting to the defensive, mobilizing its whole population, and NATO wouldn't be talking about "bad news" & the possibility of uncomfortable negotiations;

▪️In reality, this is Russia's strategy, incremental gains leveraging its advantages in long-range fires, larger supply of ammunition, larger variety of combat capabilities to grind down Ukrainian forces while preserving its manpower & equipment;

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