Here is June 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 22nd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary
No update today unfortunately because personal life got a bit busy. Should be fine tomorrow though.
Here is June 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
It's my weekly day off, so no update today.
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.
Russian and LPR forces have entered the urban areas of Lisichansk and the advance in the industrial area is going well according to Russian Telegram. This is the final battle for the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. I expect the war to chill out for a few days after this battle, as Russians will take a breath and prepare the DPR for the upcoming meatgrinder in the Sloviansk - Kostiantynivka line of major DPR cities with heavy industrial components as well. I'm also confused about the lack of movements on other fronts by Russian troops, surely they have the capacity to do something in Zaporozhye or Mykolaiv other than lobbing artillery like the past 3 months
i'd assume they're happy to just sit back and let the ukrainians gradually wear down from constant bombardment on the southern fronts right now, and take advantage of any ukrainian attempts at offensives (like near kherson where the russians gained a little ground). russia hasn't really gained much so far in this war by over-extending into ukraine in areas where they don't have a positional advantage (the earlier quagmires around kyiv and kharkiv for example) and their prospective goals in the south are a lot less important than securing the rest of the donbas to the overall russian strategy and war aims at the moment.
i suspect zaporozhye is probably next once donetsk is wrapped up as they can pivot straight from the DPR's borders to a two-front assault on the city. mykolaiv seems like it'll be less important unless there's a major effort by ukraine to reopen the black sea to get weaponry in (which seems unlikely), but in the longer term they're probably going to move in that direction to get to odessa and transinistria.