The RuAF dropped 250+ FABs on Avdeevka on the final day before the city fell SM.
If anything this shows that Ukrainian air defense has been more or less completely degraded.
Maybe they found some manpads or stingers laying around somewhere.

The RuAF is far more active now than they were in the early days of the war, so it's not entirely unexpected that they might take some losses.
It is a war after all.

Usually militaries become worn out, exhausted and depleted as a war drags on.
This is not the case with Russia, the more this war continues, the stronger they get, in contrast the Ukrainian military has become a lot weaker now than they were 18 mths ago.

Every day that passes brings Ukraine closer to total collapse.
I've heard the Ukrainians are now talking amongst themselves about a coup detat.

If a lot of Ukrainians are captured in Avdeevka, it's going to have a significant demoralising effect on the Ukrainians and their government.

http://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1758831946359054688
Russians raising the flag over the Avdeevka Coke plant.

Zelensky must be throwing a fit right now:
"You must seen more men to defend my coke plant!"
Advisor: "It's not that kind of coke Volodymyr"

You'd better get used to the territorial losses SM
There's plenty more where Avdeevka came from.

You can either support negotiated settlement and an end to the carnage;
Or keep sending Ukrainians to die so Americans and Europeans in their comfy air-con office suites can enrich themselves.

I told you all what was going to happen, but you refused to listen to good sense.
It's easy to scream for others to go fight and die when you're not putting yourself at risk.

No need to chuck a tantrum and try to point score,
Just accept the situation on the ground, it's not going to get any better.
They're just sending Ukrainians to die so Biden can try to save face.
Too many people wearing suits and with snouts in troughs have a financial interest in the outcome.
The people dying and left to rot where they fall, well they're not important (apparently).
Western leaders will be trying to figure out who else they can send to die.
Western terrorists conclude 'the ends justifies the means'
http://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1758854008939139335

No refunds.
http://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1758981903330234855
"Jay in Kiev says America is now viewed with disdain in Ukraine, accuses the US of ‘betraying’ the country and causing ‘thousands’ of deaths."

"What did they think 'To the last Ukrainian' meant?"

Ukraine managed a well-organised withdrawal leaving behind a flattened Avdivvka sprinkled with Russian corpses and 3 shot down Russian Jets. 2x Su34s and one Su35.

What about the murder of Navalny?

No they didn't.
Your listening to the narrative of the side that was just defeated.
They didn't even have defensive lines prepared in the rear.
There were mass casualties and hundreds of surrenders.
There's dead Ukrainians left to rot all over the place.
- I've seen the footage
Many had to try and escape through mud on foot.
- I've seen that footage as well.

All you have to do is look at the thumbnail images and the name of the videos to know that it was not an orderly withdrawal, it was a debacle, and many AFU are livid about it.

http://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary/videos

"What about the murder of Navalny?"

What about it?
Does Russia involve itself in the matters of inmates in Alabama prisons?
If it did, the US would rightly say 'mind your own business'.

These are internal matters for the Russian Federation.
Screaming about it only advertises that he was an agent of the West.

He dies a month before a Russian presidential election in prison?
This has got western propaganda attack written all over it.
What the hell did Putin have to gain from his death? Nothing.
- Better to leave him there alive to rot.

He was going to spend his days in a Russian prison.
Working with foreign agents (CIA and MI6) to create civil unrest and overthrow the government, should've rightly earned him a firing squad for treason anyway.
He was never going to become President and he had no further usefulness to the West except one final thing.
- Die.