Links and Stuff
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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
Its pretty obvious at this point that Ukraine has no defensive plan, or defensive assets left. Everything is just PR at this point.
There are reports they are sending 7 brigades of Territorial Defense Units (up to 20,000 men) to bolster the defenses in the Donbas. These are older reservists who are untrained and armed with only small arms, civilian vehicles and maybe mortars. They are getting poured into the areas around the entrenched defenses apparently, which means they are on the frontline out in the open.
They are sending these men to get slaughtered by APCs, drones, artillery, missiles and air strikes. They have no chance whatsoever and their entire purpose is to die to buy a couple weeks.
Buy time for what? I think the oligarchs are making insane amounts of profits right now re-selling NATO weapons and pilfering NATO funds. They will drag this on forever
is that the same 20,000 men who participated in the kherson counter-offensive? lmao
Yes but this time I believe them because these are territorial defense militia units not mobile mechanized infantry corps like Ukraine claimed they had for Kherson. I absolutely believe Kiev is sending tens of thousands of old men to the front to die
It's so insanely evil what the US and their henchmen in Kiev are doing. Thousands of Ukrainians will get murdered for absolutely nothing because of this.