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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

  • fever [he/him]
    ·
    9 months ago

    An article published on ISNA in Farsi quotes a official saying:

    • First 70 fighters and then with addition of fighters from Cyprus, 103 fighters
    • 15 signal jamming aircrafts
    • Their own AWACS plus AWACS from UAE and KSA
    • 6 ships in Red Sea plus the six-layered anti-missile systems in KSA and UAE
    • All missile defense capabilities of Israel

    ... were used to intercept the Iranian and the Resistance's drones and missiles.

    He then said:

    • Our intelligence reports had shown that Pentagon had accepted to lead the defense entirely
    • CENTCOM had designated 8 regions for their missile defense plan; Caucasus, Zagros, Turkiye, Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Mediterranean.
    • The Qatars advanced air defense systems were made fully available to them
    • 10 countries were working against us
    • The enemy had an advantage; they had became familiar with the Resistance's missile and drone systems during the al-Aqsa Flood operation, they knew all the weaknesses. But we weren't familiar with their advanced missile defense capabilities.
    • At first we were planning to strike six political, economical and military targets but at end we decided to only strike military targets because we just wanted to punish them.
    • OpSec didn't let the enemy know our main goal.
    • Way less drones were used than what media claims; drones which took 7 hours to reach their target. These drones triggered 5 of 8 regions that enemy had designated; 80 percent of which were engaged in east Jordan. The drones were 100% successful because non of them were sent to demolish anything but to force the Iron Dome and David's Sling to engage them.
    • After drones we launched missiles, 12 hypersonic missiles all of which hit their targets by the will of God.
    • Khaibar Shekan ballistic missile were used.
    • Cluster missiles challenged the second layer of the enemies air defense; each piece had to be engaged separately.
    • Other missiles had success rate of 75%.
    • We made sure the targets were hit by observing the satellites imagery, the cameras installed on the missiles and the local sources.
    • Only Israel were supposed to be punished in this operation but other countries that joined it got punished.
    • It shows the decency, dignity, humanity and greatness of our nation that we didn't target the Zionists' buildings.

    (Read with grain of salt as always)

    Edit: Source; full of typo hence not translation engine friendly.

    • assyrian
      ·
      9 months ago

      it's really nothing short of miraculous that Iran was able to strike anything. the west must be terrified.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
        ·
        9 months ago

        All ballistic missiles hit their targets, not a single interception. That's a 0% interception rate by Israel where it mattered. Israel is using the drone waves to pump up their percentage of success, but those were always meant as decoys to deplete air defenses anyway.

        Iran didn't use any new missile or drone tech either, everything they used in this attack was their oldest stocks. The cruise missiles they used were very cheap older ones.

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
            ·
            9 months ago

            I stand corrected on the ballistics, and those were successful. From my understanding they used much older, cheaper variants for the cruise missiles and the drones.

    • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      9 months ago
      • Way less drones were used than what media claims; drones which took 7 hours to reach their target. These drones triggered 5 of 8 regions that enemy had designated; 80 percent of which were engaged in east Jordan. The drones were 100% successful because non of them were sent to demolish anything but to force the Iron Dome and David's Sling to engage them.
      • After drones we launched missiles, 12 hypersonic missiles all of which hit their targets by the will of God.

      I suspected as much. Drones are slow and vulnerable in comparison. I wonder how much they even really needed to materially distract the "missile defense systems". But in any case I think it's unsurprising that they got shot down, and that they were expected to get shot down....whereas the (ballistic) missiles didn't even suffer a blip.

      Other missiles had success rate of 75%.

      Kind of surprised this was so low, TBH. I suspect that 25% failure rate wasn't just from interceptions. Probably includes stuff like not hitting right on-target, not doing enough damage to be counted as successfully meeting an objective, etc.

      It's difficult to overstate how much "missile defense" seems to be over-hyped (according to every serious analysis that I have seen anyway, as distinguished from state and arms-manufacturer propaganda). It is essentially a failed technology, other than the marketing and propaganda value (ooh! fireworks in sky make us safe!...while, of course, diving for the bunker). It might actually be useful in some very specific circumstances where the defense system is right at the thing you are defending and can hit incoming missiles directly head-on and be effective even with a small deflection due to the specificity and isolation of the target, but it's nothing like the catch-all, "shoot down any missile in the sky" solution it's touted as. I suspect this contributes enormously to the "paper tiger" effect, as people are calling it: marketed as invulnerable, but in reality more of just a bunch of tough guy explosion-theater.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
      ·
      9 months ago

      Lot of puffery in the piece, but he's broadly truthful, just exaggerating.

    • mkultrawide [any]
      ·
      9 months ago

      The whole mythos of the Iron Done is built on shooting down some of the crudest rockets to have been used in warefare in probably the last 40 years.