Here is June 27th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 28th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 29th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is June 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

I won't be able to write an update for today and tomorrow (as well as Sunday, my day off) due to work and travel - and honestly, due to overexposure to the words "international rules-based order" and "wage-price inflationary spiral" and "insignificant advances", I probably need a little time to unmelt my brain. I'll post some articles - good or bad - where I have an internet connection.

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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.

Last week's discussion post.

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M24•2 years ago

          It's like that one pebblethrow comic:

          West: "We need to bathe Siberia in Russian blood, and exterminate any remnants of their culture, and destroy their country by shattering it into a thousand pieces."

          Ukraine's generals: "...by giving us howitzers to take back the Donbass and Crimea?"

          West: "Donbass and Crimea?"

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]8•2 years ago

            Redditors are extremely mad that Crimea voted to join Russia and remains satisfied with that decision years later. I learned from them that it's only democracy when it has the results you want, otherwise the election was rigged.

    • jackmarxist [any]23•2 years ago

      I mean yeah. The west is once again Arming Extremists who will then pour into Europe once the major invasion is over.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M19•2 years ago

        Which will then be blamed on "foreign Russian extremist cells" throughout Europe designed to cause further chaos after already destabilizing the world order.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]8•2 years ago

          Looking forward to getting got in the latest escalation between a mostly immigrant based drug gang, and the mostly white Hells Angels (who somehow have a sizeable contingent of Serbs and eastern europeans). Somehow I just know that one of these is gonna have an tank at some point, while the other is going to be using a "discarded" ukrainian javelin.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]17•2 years ago

      I think they should probably hold their horses until if the war actually turns into an occupation+insurgency before making comparisons like that lol.