October 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Just a heads up - I'm doing more prep on Wednesday as I'll be moving in the near-to-mid future, so it'll be a four-update week.
October 7th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 8th's update is here! TLDR? [Here's the summary.
Next thread here!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
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.
How is that possible with modern satellite recon being what it is? I'd think the Russians can just watch them doing whatever they're doing?
Sure, but that means you're constantly reacting to movements and you have a delay, as they get to areas first and only then do you send soldiers in to respond.
In practice, you'd wanna access the enemy's communications, so when they say "Okay, we're going to put 200 soldiers and 10 tanks at this village tomorrow at 2pm", you can then adequately respond to that in time. The problem is when the enemy knows that you're accessing their communications, as Ukraine surely knows. Then, they could again say the above, but perhaps the commander in charge of the group of soldiers has a slip of paper given to them weeks ago that has their orders and is told not to obey what is said over the radio unless a certain codeword is used, which could be as innocuous as saying "battle" instead of "fight". Then it becomes considerably more difficult to work out exactly what's going on.