October 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

October 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Just a heads up - I'm doing more prep on Wednesday as I'll be moving in the near-to-mid future, so it'll be a four-update week.

October 7th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.

October 8th's update is here! TLDR? [Here's the summary.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.

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.

        • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Well of course those guys probably have a better grip on the situation than I do, but the train line is clearly to the left of the vehicle lanes in this video, meaning the truck in question would have needed to depart from the Russian mainland in order to carry out this attack. Additionally, this is the side of the bridge facing north, and appears to be just before the last span before reaching Crimea, so as close to Ukraine’s potential operating range as possible.

          In regards to what may have resulted in the explosion otherwise, I’m not quite sure. Definitely still a possibility of it being a suicide attack though

    • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Source on suicide truck? Not doubting you, you’re an institution here, just doing due diligence. My Google-fu is failing me.

        • Joan_of_ArcSys [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Good source. Thank you.

          So it’s definitely that truck. Meaning 2 options: remotely controlled or suicide. I wasn’t aware of the video, but now your earlier certitude makes sense. I suppose the tech exists for remote truck bombing, but do they even have the resources?

          Full disclosure: I have no idea how hard it is to rig motors to the pedal and wheel and use it like a drone especially with the recent starlink troubles.

          Interesting thought: where does earliest surveillance of that truck begin? Could it have been as simple as a brick on the gas and cruise control with a remote detention after bailing and observing?