No update today or tomorrow :deeper-sadness:
Courtesy of @TacoGyrosKebabShwama, I have added some Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels to the Links and Stuff, to scratch the itch of propaganda from the Russian people, rather than propaganda from overpaid media ghouls in the west. Note that while they sometimes have good anti-imperialist and anti-West takes, they are also typically socially reactionary in regards to LGBT, and also can show combat footage, so, CW.
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine are seriously engaged in equipping fortifications around Kiev [!!] in case of an expected offensive by Russian troops. They understand that the defeat in Donbass is already close, and the Russian army can move deep into Ukraine." https://t.me/intelslava/30463
Basically: once the fort falls, you just run across the meadows behind.
Another Kiev offensive doesn't make sense for Russia, the only possible non-Novorossiya movement is a limited offensive towards Sumy I think. The next step post-Donbass will probably be what remains of Zaporizhzhia and maybe Mykolaiv if Russians are really into the Novorossiya thing
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I am coming from totally opposite direction, I don't see how Russia stops earlier than Polish border - maybe only if Ukies surrender unconditionally [or anything similar] + make huge terrotorial concessions [that will very likely include Odessa and much more] and allow Russian military bases / strategic missiles on their remaining territory!?
Otherwise the Nazi/NATO problem is not solved strategically, and 1)that is unacceptable & 2)there is nothing in sight or even foreseable future that could stop the logical development of the SMO.
Yeah, if Ukraine runs out of troops, or morale, or key materiel before the Russians do then the Russians will have free reign over the country and it's down to seeing who really feels motivated to fight an insurgency.