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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
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English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
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 relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
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.
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Almost every Western media outlet.
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.
China donates 70 tons of equipment to Cuba to restore its electric system
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Even with this and the photovoltaic donations, it feels like China is very squeamish about helping Cuba that much. Quite disappointing. Perhaps as the US keeps driving forward on sanctions on China, they'll increasingly not care about potential consequences, but until then, Cuba suffers.
400 MW? in a country that 2 years ago had 7.8 GW? maybe something was lost in translation
That's probably the amount of generation the aid gives, not the amount Cuba will have after the aid.
seems like a drop in the bucket but glad to see someone doing something
It's about 5% of the whole country's capacity. That's nothing to sneeze at.
yeah, its something, but providing some parts to repair 400MW of installed capacity (not 400MW of new capacity?) is pretty tiny considering they have seemingly lost well over half their generating capacity and that 400MW isn't even enough to make up the discrepancy between current (presumably much diminished) demand and supply, and considering the absolute enormity of China's economy and productive capacity compared to cuba... It just is underwhelming, is all. Hopefully it's the first delivery of many
I was able to find this on the official Electricity Union Facebook page regarding the current electricity situation in Cuba
Spanish post
Nota informativa.
Situación del SEN para el 03 de enero de 2025.
En el día de ayer se afectó el servicio desde las 10:36 horas de la mañana hasta las 12:58 horas por altas transferencias hacia la zona centro oriental con un máximo de 65 MW y desde las 15:46 horas hasta las 20:04 horas, con mayor incidencia en la zona centro oriental, la máxima afectación fue de 660 MW a las 18:20, coincidente con la hora de máxima demanda.
La disponibilidad del SEN a las 07:00 horas es de 2161 MW y la demanda 1650 MW, sin afectación. En el horario de la media se estima una afectación por déficit de 150 MW, con mayor incidencia en la zona centro oriental.
Se encuentran en avería la unidad 5 de la CTE Nuevitas, la unidad 2 de la CTE Felton y la unidad 1 de la CTE Santa Cruz. En mantenimiento se encuentra la unidad 2 de la CTE Santa Cruz, las unidades 3 y 4 de la CTE Cienfuegos y la unidad 5 de la CTE Renté.
Las limitaciones en la generación térmica son de 319 MW.
Se encuentran fuera de servicio por combustible 50 centrales de generación distribuida con 305 MW.
Para el pico se estima la recuperación de 50 MW en centrales de la generación distribuida que están fuera de servicio por combustible.
Con este pronóstico, se estima para la hora pico una disponibilidad de 2211 MW y una demanda máxima de 2800 MW, para un déficit de 589 MW, por lo que de mantenerse las condiciones previstas se pronostica una afectación de 659 MW en este horario.
UNE-MINEM
English translation, my Spanish is limited but I'm trying my best
Information notice
SEN situation for 03 January 2025.
Yesterday the [electricity] service was affected from 10:36 AM until 12:58 due to high demand in the central-eastern area with a maximum deficit of 65 MW. And from 15:46 until 20:04, with an even greater incidence in the central-eastern area, the maximum deficit was 660 MW at 18:20 hours, coinciding with the hour of maximum demand.
The generation capacity of SEN at 07:00 was 2161 MW, and demand 1650 MW, with no deficit. At midday, a shortfall/deficit of 150 MW is estimated, with a greater incidence in the central-eastern area.
Unit 5 of TPP (Thermal Power Plant) Nuevitas, unit 2 of TPP Felton and unit 1 of TPP Santa Cruz are out of service. Unit 2 of TPP Santa Cruz, units 3 and 4 of TPP Cienfuegos and unit 5 of TPP Renté are under maintenance.
Limitations on thermal electricity generation total up to 319 MW.
Fifty distributed generation plants totaling 305 MW capacity are out of service due to lack of fuel.
During peak hours, it is estimated that 50 MW of generation capacity will be recovered due to distributed generation plants receiving more fuel.
With this prediction, an maximum generation capacity of 2211 MW is estimated for peak hours, and a maximum demand of 2800 MW, resulting in a deficit of 589 MW, if the expected conditions continue. Otherwise, a deficit 659 MW is expected during peak hours. [It should be 639MW if my understanding is correct , but 659MW is what the statement said]
UNE-MINEM
In summary, current peak generation capacity is between 2.1-2.2GW, and peak demand around 2.8GW, resulting in a deficit of between 600-700 MW. I'm guessing that China is aiming to add approximately 400MW to the grid by fixing the limitations on thermal generation capacity (319MW) due to multiple TPP units being out of service or under maintenance, and supplying more fuel for the 50 distributed micro generation plants currently lacking fuel. It seems that enough fuel for between 50-70MW of electricity generation has already arrived based on the UNE statement. This is quite close to the 400MW figure. However, even with this increase in capacity, there will still be a deficit of between 200-300MW based on current trends. It seems a lot of that installed capacity has hit end of life service, if Cuba is saying that only 319MW of thermal generation is limited.
screenshot of Facebook post
The situation with regards to Cuba's energy infrastructure is bad and can't be fixed quickly. To supply full demand, they basically need all of their remaining oil burning thermal power plants (TPPs) and micro generation power plants to be running at full capacity. Any maintenance or fuel shortage puts them in a deficit. I did another reply in here breaking down all the numbers, but the summary is current demand is 2.8GW, and current supply 2.2GW. So a 600MW shortfall. And Cuba themselves state that the limitations on the TPPs is only 319MW, which is less than the 400MW China is aiming to reinstate. So even if all of the serviceable TPPs are put back in service, that's still a 300MW shortfall. Cuba has been making up that shortfall using micro generation facilities, but apparently they are now running low on fuel, and that 300MW is not available.
Long term, you'd have to either rebuild the Cuban grid on renewables (which is the government's plan), or get the Soviet era TPPs back in service. While that second opinion would add a lot to the grid as these could supply GWs of power (Cuba theoretically has over 7GW of generation capacity installed, more than double current demand), it essentially involves rebuilding these oil burning TPPs instead of just maintenance, and would take long. What China appears to be doing is supplying equipment to fix the TPP shortfall of 319MW, and some fuel for the micro generation facilities.