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154 votes
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President Vladimir Putin calls armed rebellion by mercenary chief a betrayal, and promises to defend Russia
113 votes -
Ukraine-Russia war live: Russian troops on high alert amid Wagner attempted coup
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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
94 votes -
Russia says Wagner Group’s leader will move to Belarus after his rebellious march challenged Putin
82 votes -
Wagner head says group standing down after claims of deal
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 22
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdiivka; megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - February 17
There hasn't been a megathread for a while so I wanted to post the latest news as well as a couple other pieces of news from the past week along with a couple articles providing additional...
There hasn't been a megathread for a while so I wanted to post the latest news as well as a couple other pieces of news from the past week along with a couple articles providing additional context.
The latest piece of news is Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdiivka to avoid encirclement, army chief says. This is very concerning and I hope encourages people to continue urging their politicians to find ways of supporting Ukraine in a larger capacity than they have in recent months.
The other day there was also this article titled Rate of Russian military production worries Europe's war planners. If you don't have time to listen to Perun's hour-long PowerPoint from 4 months ago on the same subject (Russian Defence Production 2023 - Can Russia keep up with equipment attrition in Ukraine?), then The Guardian article is a decent primer.
It also links to a Foreign Affairs article published in January of 2024 going into more detail about Russia's economic expenditures and its uneven footing: Putin’s Unsustainable Spending Spree: How the War in Ukraine Will Overheat the Russian Economy (Archive.is link). This is a particularly interesting article as it details the expenses as a percent of GDP that have recently made the rounds in the news this week, as well as how military spending as spurred growth in some industries, while others also tangentially related are lagging behind despite the government's stimulus. Additionally, Russia is spending the equivalent of billions of dollars on annexed regions of Ukraine. It then details the consequences of this substantially increased spending and increased wages that may be dislocating the civilian economy in favor of maintaining enough supplies for a further extended attritional war.
The Guardian article say that:
New analysis by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) estimates that Russia has lost 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles in the last year and close to 8,800 since the war began.
Unable to produce anywhere near that number of vehicles, Russia has mainly refurbished ageing hardware ...
Russian factories claimed to have delivered 1,500 main battle tanks this year, of which 1,180 to 1,280 had been reactivated from storage, according to IISS. Those numbers, along with reactivated armoured personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, meant Russia would “be able to sustain its assault on Ukraine at current attrition rates for another two to three years, and maybe even longer”, the group said.For reference, the landing ship that was recently destroyed by Ukrainian Unmanned Surface Vessels (Magura V5 sea drones), Caesar Kunikov, could carry 10 main battle tanks and 340 troops or 12 armored personnel carriers and 340 troops. Though it's not clear what role that ship was playing, as trains play a significant role in deploying men and materiel to the frontlines.
Finally, an article I'd meant to post several months ago to just sort of talk about in general terms: What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out. Has anyone ever participated in war gaming, have a background or took a class on game theory, or enjoyed the history of tabletop gaming that dates back to this war-time activity? Just interested in what people have to say.
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Russia destroys Kherson-region dam
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Putin declares "special military operation" in Ukraine
50 votes -
Russia's FSB announces a felony investigation into Wagner Group's incitement to 'armed rebellion'
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What sources are you using to follow the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
I realised I relied on Reddit a lot for my news sources, but I generally meant to get my news closer to the source of possible, even before deleting my account. I already follow ISW, but that's...
I realised I relied on Reddit a lot for my news sources, but I generally meant to get my news closer to the source of possible, even before deleting my account. I already follow ISW, but that's daily and quite conservative in its analysis (which is good). Do you have good more frequent sources that you trust?
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 8
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
41 votes -
US House approves $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (gifted link)
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Daily megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - February 24
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 15
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
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Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead
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Vladimir Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
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Anger in Sweden as Nobel Prize organizers invite Russia and Belarus to the award ceremonies – several lawmakers say they will boycott this year's ceremonies
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - August 17
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
35 votes -
Wagner Group now just 400 km away from Moscow
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Putin recognises Ukraine rebel regions, sends troops on what Moscow calls peacekeeping mission
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Trump openly admits he believes Putin instead of US Intelligence over 2016 election interference
@joshtpm: Asked whether he believes US intel or Putin, Trump goes on tirade against FBI over "DNC Server", says it's not clear who to believe. https://t.co/d7Viw1Vn4B
34 votes -
Russians keep turning up dead all over the world
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Brutal video shows Ukrainian commando unit blitzing Russian trench
33 votes -
Here are the 285,000 Manafort text messages that WikiLeaks wouldn't publish
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Russia awakes to biggest attack on Russian soil since World War II
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Russia has massed 500 tanks for an attack on Kupyansk. Thousands of Ukrainian drones await them.
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Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader's jail term extended to nineteen years
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Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing two
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US House Intel Chairman announces ‘serious national security threat,’ sources say it is related to Russia's nuclear capabilities in space
30 votes -
Sudanese war continues as the world ignores it in favor of wars in Ukraine and Gaza
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - August 3
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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"If it hadn't been for the prompt work of the medics": FSB officer inadvertently confesses murder plot to Alexei Navalny
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US Senate intelligence committee unveils election security report in wake of Mueller hearings
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Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 13
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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US Senate proposes that radioactive contamination of NATO territory caused by Russia be considered as attack on Alliance
29 votes -
AG William Barr releases Mueller Report’s principal conclusion
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Russia seizes Ukrainian ships near annexed Crimea after firing on them
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Russia has 'right to war' with 'each and every' NATO country - Dmitry Medvedev
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 6
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
28 votes -
United States to return to staging nuclear weapons in UK
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US judge orders former Donald Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort to be jailed on witness tampering charges
27 votes -
US intelligence assessment shows intentionally caused explosion crashed Wagner chief's plane
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - August 31
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 1
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
25 votes