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.
Receiving, distributing Russian humanitarian aid in occupied territories to be considered collaborationism. The law on collaborationism came into force on Aug. 16. According to it, acts of collaborationism will be punished by up to 15 years in jail.
The mask keeps slipping each day. Muhajideen 2.0 vibe from this bunch
Ukraine doing its best to alienate its own population and send them into the arms of Russia
It's just a set up for the genocide they're planning if they regain control of those regions.
"Oh the majority Russian speaking population took aid from the occupying force? Off to the concentration camps as we have to ensure freedom and democracy"
Fortunately, they will never regain control of those regions so it's totally unenforceable there. My fear would be that they use it as an excuse in regions they still control to terrorize any elements in the population suspected of having any Russian sympathies (or just anyone they decide they don't like for whatever reason). Then again, they hardly need another excuse, as they've been killing much of their own people already and blaming the Russians for it with impunity.
The comments on that tweet are hilarious. So much lib head scratching there is dandruff floating out of my monitor.