Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.
January 16th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 17th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 18th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 20th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 21st's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
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. Beware of chuddery.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
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 ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
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 ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. 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. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
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.
An indicative list of all weapons and equipment that NATO countries intend to transfer to Ukraine in the near future:
🇬🇧 14 Challenger 2 tanks;
🇬🇧 600 Brimstone missiles;
🇬🇧 30 155mm AS90 SAU;
🇬🇧 200 BMPS/BTRS;
🇨🇦 200 Senator armored vehicles;
🇨🇦 1 NASAMS air defense battery;
🇵🇱 14 Leopard 2 tanks (most likely modification of A4);
🇺🇸 100 Bradley BMPs;
🇺🇸 100 M113 tracked APCs;
🇺🇸 18 155mm SAU M109A6;
🇺🇸 250 M1117 armored vehicles;
🇺🇸 138 HMMWV off-road vehicles;
🇺🇸 100 Stryker wheeled APCs;
🇺🇸 GLSDB ammunition;
🇺🇸 36 105mm howitzers;
🇺🇸 1 Patriot air defense/protection battery;
🇺🇸 6 Nasams air defense batteries;
🇺🇸 18 RSZOS;
🇫🇷 40 AMX-10RC wheeled tanks;
🇫🇷 Bastion armored vehicles;
🇮🇹🇫🇷 1 SAMP/T air defense/protection battery;
🇩🇰🇫🇷 Several 155mm Caesar wheeled gunships;
🇩🇪 40 Marder BMPs;
🇩🇪 1 Patriot air defense/protection battery;
🇩🇪 3 Iris-T air defense batteries + 3 TRML-4D radars;
🇩🇪 2 RADARS TRML-4D;
🇩🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰 16 Zuzana-2 155mm wheeled guns;
🇳🇱🇺🇸🇨🇿 120 T-72M tanks;
🇳🇱 1 Patriot air defense/protection battery;
🇸🇪 50 CV-90 BMPS;
🇸🇪12 155-mm Archer wheeled gunships;
🇨🇿26-30 152mm Dana-M2 wheeled gunships;
🇪🇪10 155 mm FH70 howitzers;
🇪🇪10 122mm D30 howitzers.
Source
A whole new army, lol. This is like the third one already
When does Russia call a spade a spade? Proxy war, what does that even mean in this day and age? The West is actively participating in Ukrainian military operations.
I think they wont say or do anything for now as long as it remains at this small scale.
it is not worth starting WW3 over 10 or 20 tanks. I think for now the only "red line" would be explicit NATO troops in Ukraine, even though they're already there training and supporting Ukraine.
If I know one thing about war, it’s that you really want to have to train people on 40 separate weapons systems that all do the same thing but don’t have interchangeable personnel so that you can throw off your enemy
It's going to be a nightmare to keep those all supplied with proper ammunition and trained operators
Now would not be a bad time to blow the Dniper bridges. And it would be a pretty hilarious response to all this.
If this is anything like the PS3 game MAG then the devs already removed Russia's ability to blow up bridges
That would require a pretty huge offensive up north, which Ukraine should be more prepare now compare to the initial start of the war. The Russian should’ve have blown up the bridge but alas, naivety and the arrogant taken over the decision maker.
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Ukraine is gonna blow thru all this equipment in a month, probably shorter considering the lack of trained personnel and the logistical nightmare of maintaining so many different systems
You also have to account for "shrinkage".
What do UAF Loss Prevention Officers look like?
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Obviously to weaken Russia military capability. So when this over, Russia probably gonna hybernate for a decade or two, that's when the american and it dogs will have free adventure on West Pac to face off against China.
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I'm not talking about relationship though. I'm talking about military capability. When this war is over, the Russian have to rebuild and reform its military, and depend on how much loss they're going to take, it's might take a few years to decade to rebuild. Which would take them out of any potential future war in west pac if that happen. While for Iran, they just got a huge protest and having economic down turn, they can't help China much unless they want to take a stab at Israel.
The Russians have fought this war with militias, Chechens, and mercenaries with regular army units largely manning the artillery, the Russian military is stronger than it was a year ago, they have thousands of tanks, APCs, missiles, and artillery pieces
Russian military capability is expanding from an already enormous peacetime baseline, their economy shrugged off the sanctions and now 300,000 new reservists are about to complete training, the Russians won this war
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Now if only the rest of Russia could do the same :back-to-me: , it's as if the kind Vladimir Ilyich was right again.
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Especially for one that will undoubtedly have less close ties with the USSR itself
It's kinda the opposite really. As the war goes on the Russia's army is working out its kinks and becoming more efficient and the government has/will ramp up production of weapons and train more personnel. They just announced they are increasing their troop numbers by 50%. Mass production of their latest jets and hypersonic missiles are under way. When/if the war in Ukraine ends Russia will be better equipped than before and will also have experienced soldiers.
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The Russian's will be dusting off their old PTRS ant-tank rifles with all this light armor getting dumped on the Ukrainians. Honestly it'll probably be helpful for keeping troops safe from nearby artillery strikes and small arms fire when moving near the front lines. The 120 T-72M's will be nice as long as the western modernizations haven't made them too different to operate. All the various 155 and 152mm guns will help replace the losses of soviet artillery (which they can't get enough ammunition for), but it's going to be a nightmare tying to supply and maintain small numbers of so many different systems. It really looks like half the motivation here is to take advantage of the conflict to test all of these NATO weapons systems that haven't seen real peer-to-peer conflict.