Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
I think the only thing we can say for certain at this point is that Ukraine is never going to get back Donbass or the areas of Novorossiya that the Russians currently occupy.
Beyond that, the extent of territory Russia takes will probably depend on whether the Ukrainian defense in Donbass entirely collapses or not. They're currently cracking, and Russian advances have been slow but accelerating. If this accelerates into a full collapse of the Ukrainian army, then I'd honestly be kinda surprised if the Russians didn't make a push towards Odessa & Transnistria.
I think they'll also try and take Kharkov regardless, since it's right next to the Lugansk oblast, and they're already fighting near it anyways. Kharkov also used to be a major center of pro-Russian sentiment before being suppressed by the 2014 coup government from what I've heard, so there's that aspect as well
I think you mean Tarkov, where the Ukrainian forces and ghost of Kiyiev are killing billions of **cs per day.