October 10th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

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October 12th's update is here!. TLDR? Here's the summary!

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October 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Next thread here!

Just an update on my situation: I'll almost certainly be moving within the next week or two. The last update for a little while will be next Wednesday, the 19th. I'm going to then take a break to set things up, get to know my surroundings and such. I hope to be ready to start doing this again on the 28th, but I will post that week's megathread on the 24th.

After that, I will hopefully be able to keep doing this more consistently and things will get less busy than they have in recent weeks. I strongly appreciate all the compliments I get and I'm glad to be part of such a great community! :Care-Comrade:

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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Zelensky, from Russian telegram:

    The enemy launched a second wave of terrorist attacks against our country. As of this morning, there were 28 missiles, of which 20 were shot down. More than 15 drones, almost all of them are Iranian combat drones. Most were shot down.

    Restoration works are taking place quite quickly and efficiently throughout the country. If it wasn't for today's strikes, we would have already restored the energy supply, water supply and communications that the terrorists damaged yesterday. And today, Russia will achieve only one additional thing: it will delay our recovery a little.

    Where there was destruction, the infrastructure will be renewed everywhere. Where there were losses, there is already or will be construction. Where there were any hopes of the enemy, there will be ruins of Russian statehood.

    Mankind and humanity are stronger than any terrorists. I am thankful to everyone who fights and works for our victory!

    My guy. My dude. Russia has taken out 30% of your electricity grid in two days.

    Tomorrow: "We have shot down 45 of the 23 missiles that Russia has fired at us..."

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Restoration works are taking place quite quickly and efficiently throughout the country. If it wasn’t for today’s strikes, we would have already restored the energy supply, water supply and communications that the terrorists damaged yesterday. And today, Russia will achieve only one additional thing: it will delay our recovery a little.

      :doubt:

      i live in america and a mild storm can knock out my power and take longer than that to bring it back up I feel like these missile strikes are probably doing more damage than that

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        The only counterpoint to that is that the power grid was probably designed in the Soviet era so is undoubtedly more resilient than yankee crap.

        That being said, Zelensky is undoubtedly chatting shit and I’m sure that areas that are back online with power are specific areas for the cameras, etc.

      • Farman [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I dont live in america but one it almost (not quite there was some ice but that was that) snowed were i live and we were without electricity for a week and my country still had a gdp higer than ukraine.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      If it wasn’t for today’s strikes, we would have already restored the energy supply, water supply and communications that the terrorists damaged yesterday. And today, Russia will achieve only one additional thing: it will delay our recovery a little.

      So he's saying it worked?

      • VILenin [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        If it wasn't for the fact that I failed, I would have succeeded

    • Awoo [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      there will be ruins of Russian statehood.

      This is how you get nuked Zelensky

    • VILenin [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Entire world drained of copium reserves in just 4 paragraphs

    • amyra [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      there's rolling blackouts in half the country, who is he trying to fool?

      • jackmarxist [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Westoid Liberals. They believe anything he says. He can say that Hitler was right about Russians and they will agree with him.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      My guy. My dude. Russia has taken out 30% of your electricity grid in two days.

      Makes me think of all the Germans who were supposedly shocked when the Red Army rolled up because the Nazi's propaganda had so thoroughly shut down information about what was happening in the war.

    • 100th [none/use name]
      ·
      2 years ago

      We have hacked the missiles in route and have safely landed then at our bases