Here is August 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
AUGUST 9TH's GENERAL MEGATHREAD IS HERE.
Here is August 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 10th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Here is August 12th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 13th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on 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.
“Wagner” is just a term made up by Liberals and used ironically by Russians for all the various PMCs that Russia employs, it’s not a single organization. It’s like “Antifa” or “Anonymous” in this way, because it’s not an actual organization it’s not really clear who is “in” it or not.
So claiming “Wagner group is Nazi” is absurd because “Wagner group” is not a single real group of people, neither are these various groups acting in a fascist manner systematically like Azov. Even if you can find questionable people within these groups (what groups of PMCs on Earth would be free of right wingers?) there’s no evidence of wide scale Nazism or consistent ideological fascism
Not to mention, the Russians aren’t even bold enough to integrate them into their military lol. They’re all fascists in one way or another, but Russia has the sensibility to avoid bad optics. But Ukraine doesn’t have to care about that because the west will take care of it for them