Here is June 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 22nd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is June 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary
No update today unfortunately because personal life got a bit busy. Should be fine tomorrow though.
Here is June 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
It's my weekly day off, so no update today.
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.
It seems like the LPR is in the process of storming Lysychansk, but I have no idea how far they've gotten yet. The city has been almost entirely encircled, but the main road out isn't technically in Russia's possession yet - though, of course, they can strike it just fine with artillery and aircraft, so the city is operationally encircled. As soon as the city is taken, there's just a couple more villages to capture before all of Lugansk is under Russian control.
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Consolidate and clean up in the LPR, likely there will be an idle. Then they will hit Ukrainian-controlled DPR from its relatively unprotected northern flank.
If the west tries to get cute with Lithuania or Moldova or Georgia that will change the calculus a bit probably, with more emphasis in pushing towards Odessa or the areas in question
I think it's reasonable to see the focus go towards securing the Luhansk Oblast and looking towards Bakhmut and Slovyansk, troops are 3-5km out from those cities and it'd make it easier to fight the ukranian army by rolling up the Donetsk Oblast from the north since most fortifications would've been constructed in the south where the frontline was during the last 8 years