🇬🇧Through a Business Insider article, a report prepared by North American Captain Ryan Forte for the Institute of Modern Warfare at West Point has been released. By reading the published fragments one can infer what the Ukrainian withdrawal from Avdiivka really was like. Below we include several of them:

"The withdrawal of Ukrainian defenders serves as a textbook example for the US Army of the challenges, requirements, and risk mitigation considerations involved in successful execution of such an operation."

"Withdrawal from the completely encircled 'Zenit' position in the southeastern outskirts of Avdiivka was a particularly difficult affair for Ukrainian forces, with witness reporting of a disorganized nighttime movement under attack from Russian artillery, direct fire, unmanned aerial vehicles, and loitering munitions."

"Primary and alternate routes need to be established, as does the timing of their use, recognition signals, and methods of communication. [...] For example, if an element of the withdrawing force's main body begins its movement before the security force is in position to effectively support, it may be preemptively engaged and destroyed during this period of vulnerability."

"Medical evacuation procedures must be addressed in detail, to include designated vehicles, routes, and link-up points. Based on available time and enemy action, the ability to evacuate all casualties may not be possible."

The other lesson of Avdiivka is ensuring adequate support for a retreat, especially for the covering force that screens the withdrawal of the rest of the army. "To accomplish this task, in which the security force is potentially outnumbered or outgunned, it will need prioritization from higher echelons for key enablers and weapons systems, such as air defense, fuel depots, and counterbattery radar."

"A withdrawal does not intrinsically mean a defeat. But failing to train, plan, and resource a withdrawal could result in one."

🔗https://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-us-army-should-learn-from-ukraines-hasty-retreat-in-the-battle-of-avdiivka-2024-3

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🇷🇺 Statement by Pavel Durov on the removal of terrorist content on Telegram

4 days ago, Russian-speaking Telegram users began to complain about messages from strangers calling for terrorist attacks.

Within an hour of receiving such complaints, we applied a number of technical and organizational measures in order to prevent this activity.

As a result, tens of thousands of attempts to send such messages were stopped, and thousands of users participating in this flash mob faced permanent blocking of their Telegram accounts.

From the beginning of next week, all users from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will be able to limit the circle of those who can send them private messages. We are also implementing artificial intelligence solutions to filter unwanted messages even more effectively.

Telegram is not a place for unauthorized mailings and calls for violence

🇺🇦🇷🇺 SBU: Telegram cooperates with the FSB and Roskomnadzor, but ignores the Ukrainian authorities

▪️"First of all, the SBU monitors where the Telegram servers are located. There is a high probability that they are on Russian territory. The second problem of Telegram is that its owner and developers are citizens of Russia. The third is that we see clear cooperation between Telegram and Roskomnadzor and the FSB. When necessary The FSB blocks any channel on the territory of Russia, Telegram carries out these instructions instantly,” said A. Melnichenko, a representative of the department of counterintelligence protection and information security of the SBU.
▪️The SBU is taking certain measures to de-anonymize administrators of Telegram channels conducting destructive activities.
▪️"Sometimes some of them can be blocked, but Telegram does not listen to the requests of Ukraine as it does to the requests of Russia."
▪️Yesterday, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, called Telegram “a problem from a national security point of view.”

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