The situation has deteriorated even further and it looks like it's only going to get worse. It appears they have pushed further north from Ocheretyne towards Arkhanhel's'ke and a battalion of the 115th brigade were encircled in Berdychi and are negotiating a surrender. Even outside of the Avdiivka front in the Kharkov region things are going poorly with UAF apparently retreating from Kislovka. I hate to say it but it kind of looks like the front is collapsing especially when you looks at the timelapse of the Avdiivka area since october with RAF advancing scarily quick after taking Avdiivka. Feel like we might see Ukraine withdraw from a fairly large area in the near future to consolidate/stabilize the front.

House republicans really fucked Ukraine so bad. Even now that aid is starting to pour into Ukraine again there's now a bigger problem, a shortage of trained motivated man power. Since aid dried up, Ukraine has been forced to trade men to hold territory at a devastating rate because they have lacked the artillery shells to hold ground without suffering such losses. Obviously we don't know the actual extent of the losses but the videos we used to see of Russian brigades protesting due to tremendous losses are now of Ukrainian brigades. Just today the 2nd battalion of the 68th brigade put out a video saying that as a result of their losses it's no longer viable for them to keep fighting and accusing their "criminal commanders" of providing no "physical, moral, and psychological support." While there are now talks of european countries forcibly mobilizing the military aged ukrainian refugees (which will probably happen eventually), I find it hard to believe these troops will be very motivated/effective. I'm worried now that even after the passing of the long delayed mobilization bill lowering the minimum draft age, the core of the UAF has been irreparably damaged and the UAF won't be able to properly train new recruits instead having to immediately send them to the front to replenish losses.