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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.

  • comi [he/him]25•2 years ago

    I was reading about odessa shenanigans, I’m still baffled why ukraine insists that russians mined the waters and people print it like truth. Why in the fuck attacking side would mine waters, they can’t now attack :puzzled:

    Maybe I’m missing some reports from early in the war about russian mining ships?

    Also russia says there are around 60000 troops around sloviansk. This will be bad :deeper-sadness:

    • @solaranus13•9 months ago

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      • comi [he/him]6•2 years ago

        "Sea mines have been laid in port approaches and some port exits are blocked by sunken barges and cranes," said a spokesperson with U.N. shipping agency the International Maritime Organization, one of several bodies working on establishing sea passage for grain supplies.

        It is unclear what types of mines have been laid at this stage, Western maritime officials say.

        A Ukrainian foreign ministry official told Reuters in March that some 372 sea mines laid by Russia were of the “R-421-75” type, which were neither registered with or used by Ukraine's navy currently and were captured by the Russian military during Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

        Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement in March that Ukraine had mined the approaches to the ports of Odesa, Ochakov, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny with 400 obsolete anchor mines.

        Actually reuters seems more neutral, just credulous that he said she said situation

        • @solaranus10•9 months ago

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          • comi [he/him]6•2 years ago

            Yeah, it’s completely ridiculous, I was trying to understand what exactly ukraine blockade deal is, like okay ports are mined and russian ships are outside, but why ukraine blames russia for both. Turns out they talk shit.

            Although, their concern, that as soon as they de-mine, they’ll get surprise d-day is prolly valid, but still

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]12•2 years ago

      Appears to be almost a last stand/intentional meat grinder counteroffensive. Concentrating forces like that while Ukraine is as low on artillery shells as it is basically screams that they want to come to the negotiating table in some kind of bargaining position, and they realize this might be one of the last chances

      • comi [he/him]16•2 years ago

        Ukrainians, russian numbers are hard to find, according to ukrainians around 40 thousands Russians are around lisichansk/zolotoe

        • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]18•2 years ago

          Going to be one hell of a meat grinder.

          This war has really opened my eyes to how far people are willing to follow orders. It's nuts

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]17•2 years ago

            This war has really opened my eyes to how far people are willing to follow orders. It’s nuts

            In WWI millions of otherwise sane young men walked in to muddy fields that were impassable due to barbed wire to be machine gunned for absolutely no legitimate reason. And it went on for years.

          • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]4•2 years ago

            There are plenty reports of Ukrainian commanders killing deserters and people who want to surrender. If you've got a Nazi with a gun in your back marching to the front lines is the best chance for survival. The Russians might kill you the Nazi will .