Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
Please confine all news pertaining to Russia-Ukraine war to this thread exclusively. Any links shared outside of this thread will be subject to removal.
I strongly disagree with the decision to centralize all ukraine war news in a megathread.
That's not how information is consumed on a medium like Lemmy. What you're doing makes the topic invisible for the vast majority of users.
I just realized that this is an active thread, I thought the feed hadn't updated since June 25th, as many other community feeds are intermittent or have multi day lags. Maybe have a daily thread or something to indicate aliveness?
I totally agree with you. This is a very inefficient way to share information, blending comments with postings.
The solution is to have the option to filter dominant topics the same way /r/worldnews does. We should do this in addition to having a megathread, again just like /r/worldnews.
Looks like nafo has moved onto Mastodon guys!
Pro-Ukrainian talk has been hampered on Twitter, so its time to just spread NAFO-like talk to Mastodon. There's no more benefit to using Twitter for this.
Ukraine war: Russia accused of planting explosives at nuclear plant, children injured in strike:
Wagner boss Prigozhin is in Russia, Belarus ruler Lukashenko says:
I like how Prigozhin could just waltz in after the getting a pass for staging a coup. It shows how Putin has gone weak.
Russia strikes Pervomaiske with Iskander missile, injuring more than 40 – Prosecutor's Office
Ukraine claims 'explosive devices' planted on roof of Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility:
Lukashenko shares some more details about the day of Prigozhin's mutiny.
He reveals there were no defense lines in Russia up until 200 km from Moscow (some regions are more equal than others?) and carefully chooses words to present Putin as a strong leader, while pointing out it was Lukashenko who did all the negotiating.
Russian construction firms are reportedly being told to send their workers to fight in Ukraine or face losing lucrative contracts from the city of Moscow.
Yessssss. The mega thread returns!! Now I can delete Reddit! ❤️
It's a pretty dead one but okay.
It's a pretty dead one but okay.
I just noticed. Thanks Doctor Dick Grabber.
Is Russia purging Wagner Group troops in Africa?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-purging-wagner-group-troops-africa-rcna93183
Wagner chief Prigozhin returns to Russia, fate unclear (video):
The whole sage with this guy has just been strange. He's supposed to be exiled but can just return and say "I want my seized guns and money back".
What even the fuck is going on? Now they just let him walk into russia being cheered and all… what a shitshow really
The US will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package: AP sources
Ukraine advances continue in the Bakhmut axis.
Wagner: Leaked images show Prigozhin 'disguised as Libyan commander':
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/wagner-leader-prigozhin-leaked-images-disguise-libya-commander
Russian arrested filming anti-ukraine, anti-lgbt film in Moscow area.
Controlled area near Bakhmut
*Ukrainian forces widened their control at Lobkove/P'yatykhatky and reached the outskirts of Robotyne.
Furthermore, Russians have deployed their reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance while Ukrainians still haven't deployed their main force.
#Ukraine #Counteroffensive #Zaporizhzhia * https://newsie.social/@Tendar/110651371008698222
This morning the Moscow region was attacked by unknown drones. An explosion is reported on the territory of a military unit in Kubinka, the neighboring Vnukovo airport has stopped accepting aircraft.
https://mastodon.social/@noelreports@mstdn.social/110654348854138696
Russian losses per 04/07/23 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff
+770 men
+2 tanks
+9 APVs
+32 (!) artillery pieces
+6 MLRS
+3 AD systems
+29 UAVs
‘We need a lot more’: Lack of firepower hampers Ukraine’s advance on Zaporizhzhia front line As Ukraine’s top army general has put it, every metre of ground in the country’s counteroffensive is being won “with blood”. The Ukrainian soldiers’ progress is particularly gruelling in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. FRANCE 24’s Gwendoline Debono reports from the front line, where Russian forces are giving Ukraine’s artillerymen no respite.
Russian strike against Kherson kills 2
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-strike-against-kherson-kills-2/
Russian attacks kill 9, injure 34 over past day
Ukraine sniper footage
Russia hits Security Service building in Sumy on 3 July – Zelenskyy
In Russia, they've begun to destroy cemeteries of dead fighters of the Wagner PMC.
https://bird.makeup/users/wartranslated/statuses/1675801252586766336
Video with translations
Ukraine wins Turkey’s backing for Nato membership but Biden urges caution on timing:
Latest ISW update for July 3 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-3-2023
The wagner thing in Belarus is just strange. They've set up base and are continuing training with tanks and night training. One of Ukraine's fighting edge has been it's ability to conduct night raids.
Ukraine soldiers using drones to supply encircled friendly soldiers
Latest article from former Australian Army General Mick Ryan
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/war-russia-is-ukraine-military-strategy-on-track/102554712
Todays Russia-Ukraine War Guardian livethread
Criminal working for criminals
The Russian mafia has become a silent partner in Russia's war effort.
Russia’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children is not unique – Putin and others have long used children as political pawns:
Maybe they were just saving them from the Ukrainians who were going to eat them?
this is a test. posting seems to be broken.
It unbroked, it seems.
Russian Militia Linked to American Neo-Nazis, Anti-Trans Figures:
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/08/american-neo-nazis-ukraine-war/
The Dnipro river at Zaporizhzhia city before and after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
#Zaporizhzhia #Ukraine #Dnipro
That's some post global warming looking stuff.
at least some families get to have a beach day on the river i guess?
USA: Government must cancel plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine:
Ukrainian artillery from the 36th Marine Brigade continues to conduct rear area strikes supporting the Velyka Novosilka advance, seen here destroying a Russian Strela-10 SAM with drone spotted indirect fire just outside of Lyubymivka, Zaporizhia Oblast.
If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn't return to Russia after the war. I wouldn't even eat or drink anything in which might have even the slightest chance of having radioactive material.
He's moving to Belarus, which may as well be the same thing.
Russia threatening to bomb Washington in Music video
Does anyone else think that being seen as weak and capitulating to Prigozhin here is basically a death sentence to Putin?
Doing that has to have just put SO MUCH blood in the water for every internal agency/power-block with aspirations of taking him down and replacing him.
Apparently all you need is 20,000 men and Putin's defenceless...
My opinion is that this is going to cause chaos.
The fact that Putin didn't have Wagner immediately atomized on the spot suggests that he wasn't powerful enough to do so. Not a statement that someone in Putin's position would want to make, I would think.
I agree, it more importantly also showed that Moscow is basically undefended and that you could easily steamroll 25k troops right up to Putin's front door. I know you Ukraine is committed to only taking back it's own land but I would support them hitting the capital just as a means to finally end the war.
Former U.S. officials have held secret Ukraine talks with prominent Russians:
Russian military death toll in Ukraine rises to 224,630:
garbage source
Hi all ... kind of a meta non-news question.
I've been thinking about getting a person who writes great Russia-Ukraine threads over on Mastodon to post their threads here. I've got a general post about the possibility here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1528973.
I've also pestered @sabbah@lemmy.world via DM.
Just wondering what your thoughts are on whether there'd be a good fit here.
The main point is to make it as easy as possible for them by allowing them to post from mastodon still. So the ideal would be that they would create new posts here and create a thread within that post, to which people would be free to comment on of course.
Except that doesn't seem to fit within the rules here, especially rule
[1.1] Submissions must be links to news articles..Thing is, this person's threads are full of citations of or links to Telegram sources from within Russia or the region, basically a thread of primary sources that the author is compiling into a digestible narrative. It might really be something people here would appreciate, especially as I discovered them through links provided in a megathread on here.
Sooo ... I'm wondering what you think and whether there might be some scope to alter the rules and allow for this sort of thing ... the idea would be that it's something like a journalist live reporting.
Ukraine brings back bodies of soldiers killed in Russian prison camp in Olenivka
Is Ukraine winning?
Absolutely. Russians are running out of everything, Ukraine is not. How long either side can keep up though, who knows?
Seems like the strategy of running into defensive lines doesn't work so Ukraine now looks to be doing work taking out artillery, bombing supply lines and clearing trench lines
You're absolutely wrong and you've got it backwards.
Ukraine has ran out of everything they've had pre-2024 conflict and is running out of everything they've gotten after conflict started up until now. Ukraine relies 100% on foreign military assistance, where as Russia does not, how? because they are manufacturing their own equipment. The Ukrainian navy and airforce does not exist because they are destroyed, where as Russia's naval & air forces is still operating.
The saddest & most tragic thing about this entire conflict is that Ukraine has been mobilizing since 2014 until now, they've extended mobilization until August. Where as Russia has only done ONE partial mobilization late last year in December. That speaks volumes on which side has the most casualties.
Furthermore, the Russian strategy has changed but the objectives remain the same: 1. De-militarize Ukraine & 2. have full control of the four regions they've annexed and are now part of Russia. While Ukraine's objectives are 1. Push the Russian forces out. So when you look at the objective map, Russia's objectives are working and Ukraine's objective has turned into playing aggressive defense while begging for foreign assistance and aggressive mobilization.
So militarily Russia is winning & Russia is losing.
Wonder what the over/under on number of days until Prigozhin accidentally falls out a window are.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 487:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/25/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-487
CIA director met with Zelenskyy on secret trip to Ukraine
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cia-director-met-zelenskyy-secret-trip-ukraine-rcna92166
Ukraine Promises Inquiry into Banned Landmine Use
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/30/ukraine-promises-inquiry-banned-landmine-use
Timeline: How Wagner Group’s revolt against Russia unfolded:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/24/timeline-how-wagner-groups-revolt-against-russia-unfolded
Traffic restrictions on Russia's M-4 Don highway remain in force in Moscow, Tula regions: