October 31st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 2nd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
November 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Today's the day I put the extra furniture I need for this place together, so that'll be a bunch of fun. Though I can post some links here and there in the rest breaks.
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.
Do ya'll know of any website or telegram channel recommendations for viewing combat footage?
Browse the TG channels in the intro post, there's a lot. Many Pro-Russian channels like Intel Slava Z post "the best" daily war footage on a regular basis.
Personally I'd recommend ZOKA (@200_zoka) and Ghost (@mdfzeh) on Twitter. They always have all the good videos and never stop posting. Since most of the regular fighting now is done by Russian regulars and they enforce a strict smartphone ban, you won't see much shooting. You will, however, see a shit ton of UAV footage. These ZALA lotering drones seem to have a devastating effect on UA armor in the South at the moment.
I should add that it is considered canon on this website that it's generally a bad idea to watch too much of this war porn footage. After all, you're seeing actual people getting killed, whether you like Ukrainians or not. It's bound to mess you up inside somehow.
After following this stupid war for like 7 out of the past 8 months, I agree with that.
Yea I agree 100% that it'll fuck you up inside, I actually got into a pretty big argument/discussion recently with mates about it when I was high but I really can't not watch it. I followed the Azeri-Armenia war 2 years ago when I was depressed and it was alot better than just watching those random combat clips from syria and Iraq. IDK if ive just got brainworms at this point but combat footage is entertaining regardless of whose involved, aslong as both sides are armed. Ty for the reccomendation mate :bird-guerrila: