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co-deekk slash special offer, or lowercase shopify dot code ek slash special offer This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. John Hardy, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy is here.

We've been discussing what US can do now, short of the funding required by the Biden administration of the U.S. Congress.

However, we need to look at the battlefield because worst-case scenario, where are we?

John, you mentioned the villages around of

Divka the ISW the International Institute of Study of War talks about increased

tempo of the Russian forces.

What is the worst case scenario here?

You said the defensive lines were not adequately prepared.

Are they falling back to the point of the De Nieper River?

Across the De Nieper River, do they have a plan B, Jia?

So I don't think it's quite as dramatic as falling back to the meepers just for

our listeners understanding in terms of geography. This is southeastern Ukraine

the Oblast, the region of Denesk is the capital is the next city.

Near that is the very small city of Avdevka, pre-war population of maybe 30, 35,000, down to under a thousand now, you know, with all the violence.

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