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.
No updates no Sundays.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Way to hit those nazi supporter talking points. You even got them in the right order. Where'd you get your training, Reddit or Elgin? I swear I (with no experience in the field) could make a chat bot in an afternoon that would spit out 10 versions of this same rant.
Azov claimed to have 10k in 2018. FBI estimates Azov trained 17000 neo-nazis from over 50 countries between 2016 and 2021. The Christchurch massacre chud was one of them.
Ukraine has been corrupt since 1991 when it gained independence. It was created by a Russian puppet of america who chopped up and sold the USSR to Oligarchs. Sometimes the corrupt Ukrainians work with Russia sometimes with the west. The nazis were only given free reign by western friendly Ukrainian kleptocrats. All of Russia's corruption comes from Russia becoming a neo-liberal kleptocracy in an attempt to appease the USA. Corruption is a side effect of working with the USA.
That's just not true. I cant find a single instance of a Ukrainian MP with Nazi ties being removed from government since 2014. There are still many nazis in office including the minister of defence who tweeted "they arent even slavs we will kill all the orcs" in February. Ukraine has however banned tons of leftist parties including a couple with significant elected representation.
Wagner PMC is a mercenary group and doesn't have a united ideology other than getting paid. The photo with nazi tattoos that some think is Wagner's leader is unverified. The only verified photo of Wagner's leader in the last 20 years is really poor quality.
If you want videos of Ukrainians welcoming Russian troops Patrick Lancaster has a dozen. I'll assume you are asking about Bucha in the last rambling sentences and return with a question of my own. If Russia really did kill all those civilians why did the UK block Russia's attempt to have the UN investigate the massacre right after it happened? Why would Russia Push for an investigation of its own war crimes? There is video of Ukrainians forces retaking Bucha and one soldier says "This one has a white arm band can I shoot him?" the soldier on camera says "yeah" and then there are gun shots.
Russia has killed civilians but it is quite obvious from the civilian casualty reports that they are going above and beyond any other military in history to avoid civilian casualties. The UN reported almost 3 times the civilian casualties per capita in the first 2 months in the Iraq war than in the entirety of the Special military operation in Ukraine to date. That is happening in a Nation where UN inspectors are welcomed by locals not shot at them and with all the advances in technology in the last 20 years (drones satellites and cell phones make finding casualties way easier).