Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
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 ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
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.
I know attention has shifted but is there anything going on in Ukraine? I get the impression the offensive has stalled out and there's another Bakhmut-esque grind in the north east, does anyone have anything else?
AFAIK Russia's just in a sort of semi-offensive right now where they're trying to take territory but offensive wars absolutely fucking suck in modern times due to minefields and recon drones and trenches and all that so you can't assemble large groups of equipment and men so it has to be small groups so you can't really do offensives quickly
the lesson of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was as much "oh dang, trying to assault front lines nowadays is fucking awful even if you're willing to accept massive casualties, you still won't achieve much" as much as it was "NATO military tactics suck and Ukraine doesn't have enough equipment and trained men"
End of history but for WWI tactics
But without the mass mobilization of WW1
advivka battle was a very bloody russian advance (some 66 killed armored units, but they got the "Slack heap" for it )
, also apperently russian airforce has a new air to air missile in service with 400 km range and it killed a lot of ukrainian Mig 29 (7?) ,
Ukraine tried to advance over the dnjeper at kherson but it got booged down ? (its a bunch of swampy islets so its pretty grey area)
Atacams attacked 2 airfields reached one and there are different claims on the russian air units killed ... a Hole bunch of Helicopters or a small bunch of Helicopters.
Do people still think a big Russian red arrow offensive and Ukronazi collapse is coming soon?
No. It looks like Russia is gonna keep pushing slowly on several areas one by one to keep Ukraine guessing where to send reinforcement next. The idea is to just keep grinding until everything collapses at once.
Ukraine got ATACMS ballistic missiles, which have actually proven to be pretty effective. That's the biggest major development.
Alexander Mericouris at the duran heard from a source that the damage was not as bad as initially reported (just a few helicopters that are easily replaced) and that its possible that there were many more missiles used than originally thought. (18 fired and only 6 strikes)
It’s vlodymover