Current Happenings:
>Soledar has fallen
>Western countries panicking and sending mass amounts of money/armor to Ukraine
>Most of this equipment is useless in the Donbass but could be used to strike towards Melitopol
>Allegedly surrendered Ukrainian conscripts have a lot of frostbite and/or tuberculosis
>Norway, Canada, and the Baltics rushing to supply Ukraine with winter gear
>Russians attempting to encircle the Northern Bakhmut route
>Spreading out to Pidhorodne and Klishchiivka
>Ukraine will either have to counterattack soon (now, at great losses) or abandon Bakhmut soon
>Ukrainians continue to hold the train stations on the outskirts of Soledar- Western maps claim this means Russia owns none of Soledar
>tl;dr- Bakhmut/Soledar aren't important towns, but Ukraine has turned the two towns in the bottom of a valley in perfect range of artillery into important towns with their turning them into a meatgrinder
>Russia restructured their military
>Official line is that Gerasimov was above Surovikin in rank and thus was always in charge of the war
>Unofficial line is that the Russians only intended to use Surovikin to get the war back on-track to not ruin Gerasimov's reputation
>Tensions between the military high command and Wagner after the Russian military refused to accredit them with the capture of Soledar because Prigozhin called Shoigu and Gerasimov fucking idiots
>Ukraine seems more panicked about this change in leadership while Russian citizens/infantry seem somewhat pissed off
>Military forced to make a statement explicitly praising Wagner after massive civilian backlash on social media
>Ukraine's Mozart group (foreign PMC) is claiming they "only perform humanitarian missions and don't engage in combat"
>Ukraine caught using seven figure missiles to shoot down five figure drones in Kiev
>Strikes on Dnipro suggest that Ukraine has expended most of their surface-to-air missiles
>Surovikin, having retained his post as head of the Russian Air Force, is likely to be involved in further bombing runs that will be credited to Gerasimov (unless a new front opens)
>Russia is expected to attack "somewhere" in the net month or so
>Ukraine seems to be in a panicked state because they don't know where Russia will strike from
>Lukashenko reminded the Kiev regime that any attacks on Belarus (now head of the CSTO) will be seen as an attack on ALL CSTO nations
>Russians mobilizing in Belgorod, Zaporizhia, and Mozyr suggesting there will be a repeat of Russia's "attack from every direction then send reinforcements to whatever sticks" strategy under Gerasimov
Link Dump:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/
https://web.telegram.org
https://fotoforensics.com
https://trashchan.xyz/finance/
https://yandex.ru/news
nitter.net
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html (documents equipment losses; strong Ukrainian bias)
Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/6/viewer?z=6&mid=1iE-0CwiZnHYtLgndqU3l2G7VInoZE9o (THETI maps: shows both troops deployments and conflict areas)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1_JYk9u6A-TBxADdy2oqLfjFQr5koKT8 (Weeb Union Map)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Suriyakmaps
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/deployment-map/
https://militaryland.net/tag/maps/ (Daily updates)
https://liveuamap.com/ (Ukrainian propaganda map)
https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor (Intentionally up to a week old)
https://opermap.mash.ru/ (Russian propaganda map)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Russo-Ukrainian_War_detailed_map
https://militarymaps.info/ (requires Russian social media account and Russian payment processors)
http://defensepoliticsasia.com/Ukraine/ (requires giving DPA $12/month now)
Channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@WeebUnionWar/videos (Weeb Union - Shortest briefing but accurate)
https://www.youtube.com/@Theti/videos (THETI Mapping - More detailed briefings but sounds like a teen)
https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends/videos (French Comedian/Historian)
https://www.youtube.com/@militarylabb/videos (Numbers and brief overviews of the day's news; no bullshit)
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary/videos ("Breaking news" Belarusian take on the war - Subject to Russian Army fanboyism sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/@newworldecon4517/videos (Covers Economic matters in regard to Ukraine, updates on the frontlines, shorts, and other things)
https://www.youtube.com/c/MilitaryandForeignAffairsNetwork (Military and foreign affairs network; slightly pro-Ukrainian and uses militaryland maps allowing him to cover more specific military groups and pockets at the cost of less breaking news)
https://www.youtube.com/@WiU/videos (Least biased "breaking news" Reddit "OSINT" take on the war)
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday (Patrick Lancaster reporting from Russian side)
https://www.youtube.com/c/GrahamPhillipsUK (Graham Phillips less personal more professional reporting from the Russian side)
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal (Alexander Mercouris; Discusses the geopolitical issues of policies and their effects)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGHiivhFq7M_1MLemh-cjg (Singaporean take on the war - Typically a day or two old and shits on his userbase)
https://www.youtube.com/@dpa-war/videos (DPA's war-specific channel now)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Itapirkanmaa2/videos (Z)
https://www.youtube.com/c/UkraineCombatFootage/videos (counter-Z)
https://www.youtube.com/c/DjukiSan/videos (Z2)
https://www.youtube.com/c/RoadHomeMotorcycleVlogs (Ukrainian propaganda channel)