Here is July 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 26th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 27th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

I have an exhausting day ahead of me today, but I'll post interesting links in the megathread when I find them and when I have the time and wifi signal.

Here is July 29th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

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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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • Maagdenmepper [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    "growing trade with China and other countries" what are they gonna trade lol. Production in the country for a numerous amount of sectors has dropped an insane amount.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I'll give you one chance to prove you are not here to troll.

      China-Russia trade up 28.9% in Jan-May; further growth expected

      According to data released by China's General Administration of Customs, China-Russia bilateral trade stood at $65.81 billion in the first five months, up 28.9 percent on a yearly basis. The growth rate accelerated from 25.9 percent seen in the January-April period.

      In the first five months, China's imports from Russia in US dollar terms grew 46.5 percent from a year earlier, accelerating from 37.8 percent in the first four months. But export growth fell from 11.3 percent in the first four months to 7.2 percent.

      Experts noted that the trade growth comes as Russia accelerates the shift of its economic pivot to Asia amid escalating sanctions from the West.

      Russia's "turn to the East" has been underway for around a decade and accelerated due to the Western sanctions, Li Xin, director of the Institute for Eurasian Studies at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, told the Global Times on Thursday.

      Faced with Western sanctions, Russia has turned to the Asia-Pacific region, in this process, China might be its main target due to China's massive market, Li said, noting that the products traded between China and Russia have become increasingly diverse and complementary.

      • Maagdenmepper [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yeah now look at the effects that sanctions have had on the export of gas and oil. There aren't many ways to transfer it via pipelines into Asia at this moment. European countries are moving away from importing energy from russia at a fast rate while export to the country has also been killed thanks to sanctions. This while Putin and Jeltsin did everything in their power to open up the economy for western companies. Shortages of resources killed vehicle production in Russia, there are shortages of food and other products in Russian supermarkets and the Ruble is surviving by a thread now that Europe tries to be independent from Russian energy sources. The already stagnating population in the country is now getting decimated on the ukrainian frontlines which will create even more labor shortages.