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.
DPA has said that Russia has captured the Severodonetsk airport. In general, the coverage of Severodonetsk once you get down to a granular level is very confusing, with Ukraine claiming things that seem virtually impossible (like villages being held by Ukraine far ahead of the current lines while fighting is actively taking place on the front behind it).
How much of this is real fog of war and how much is stage fog, who can truly say with our current information, but to paint with a broad brush: any and all claims of Ukraine mounting a counteroffensive that's actively taking ground from Russia there is, I believe, bullshit. The most favourable interpretation is that Ukraine is saying that they're taken settlements and positions that they've actually held all this time and are just talking about it now to make it seem like they're advancing; the most realistic is that this is the next major propaganda effort after the Snake Island affair. I don't doubt that Ukraine is putting up a relatively serious degree of resistance to try and keep Russia from advancing forward, which, if Russia is successful, would mean the total capture of Lugansk province within a couple weeks of the capture of the city once they mop up the remaining smaller positions. But aside from very temporary back-and-forth advances and retreats along streets and such, the trend is that Russia is taking the city and increasingly the industrial zone.
Aside from Severodonetsk, Russia continues to fight and advance towards Slovyansk today, and has also actually gained ground, it appears, in Kherson, as they fortify the points at which Ukraine is trying to puncture through.