August 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 16th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 17th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 19th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 20th's update is here! 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.
Well I tried sharing with some liberals the statement by Zelensky that Ukrainian forces will target anyone firing from the ZPP, and got told 'obviously he means Ukrainian operators will perform targeted assassinations on the individual troops, nothing as unsophisticated as shelling'.
Presumably these high speed low drag operators were too busy doing REDACTED shit to have stopped Russia anywhere else until now. A totally invented reality.
Zelensky: "In my spare time - of course, I don't get much, with these Russian orcs occupying my country (send us more HIMARS please) - I have been playing a game called Assassin's Creed 2, Very cool and quite fun, I didn't know Italy looked so great, I talked to Mario Draghli about it over the phone the other day. And I have authorized our generals to try and do something like that to Russia. We already have hundreds of recruits for this new... well, I shouldn't talk about it, of course, Russia is listening. But yes, I have talked to Ubisoft about making their next game take place in Ukraine. Perhaps during the good years when our national heroes like Bandera were alive. I have taken to calling myself 'Volodymr Zelensky da Kryvyi Rih', and all the media will do the same from now on. That is today's address. Keep on the good fight."
God, can you imagine the :so-true: energy if Zelensky talked about playing a video game lmao
If Zelensky said he was a PC gamer then reddit might crash due to the overload of comments and upvotes and awards on a single post. There'd be an integer overflow error once it reached 9999 platinum awards