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.

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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.

    • 420stalin69
      ·
      2 years ago

      Elsewhere in Ukraine, a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia remains in a perilous situation, according to the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog.

      Russian forces captured the plant in March last year and it has repeatedly come under fire leading to rising fears of a nuclear disaster.

      International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has been trying to negotiate a safe zone around the plant, but he told the BBC the risk remains.

      "We are under enormous danger," he says.

      "There is something we can do about it. It might not be a panacea.

      "It will be a great step forward because it would be high level political commitment not to attack the plant which is very important and not use the plant as a military platform."

      Grossi has recently announced a plan for a permanent presence at all of Ukraine's nuclear plants.

      JUST FUCKING SAY IT

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        ok now it's just getting ridiculous, they're using passive copspeak for a fucking nuclear power plant

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Are there any German hexbears who can speak on the political mood/vibe over this shit?

      Is deutschland seriously gonna take this laying down lmao?

      • trompete [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I don't follow German main stream media very much, but Scholz has been bullied every witch way on weapons deliveries, across all media, and by his coalition partners, and by the US and Ukraine. He's dragged his feet but caved every time so far. A small part of the SPD base, as well as some industry interest, and probably their expert advisors are pushing back behind the scenes, I think. So far he's dragged his feet every time, but then caved. I don't see why this would be different. The media accusing you of stabbing Ukraine in the back is scary if you want to get reelected. They're in a tough spot though, they're going to lose support either way.