The truth matters crystalized for me on June 6, 2020. There was a narrative that was told about that day in Seattle.
It wasn't true. What started as recording for a documentary turned into something different.
I learned who I was.
I learned how the world worked.
I lea...
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We did extensive research to determine the battlefield situation within Severodonetsk due to the significant fog of war surroun...
2022-06-07 05:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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This morning I woke up to multiple reports that a Russian Su-25 had been shot down near Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia Oblast.
We almost did a Flash Report and a tweet, but the video only showed an airplane being shot down.
Russian forces released drone surveillance video, and reported it ...
2022-06-05 21:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere are multiple reports from Russia State Media, including "propagandist" Alexandr Sladkov that Russian Major General Roman Kutuzov was killed in action in the "Luhansk Oblast." The reports indicate that due to bad Operational Security (OPSEC) Kutuzov position was confirmed and targeted with a...
2022-06-05 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Editor's Note: The date on the subject line was for June 4 and has been corrected to June 5. Thank you for your understanding.
Ukrainian forces have made stunning gains in the last 24 hours.
To the north, Ukrainian forces have pushed to the outskirts...
2022-06-05 19:01:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Collapse feels like the correct word. The Russian attempt to capture Severodonetsk is in collapse. We've talked to some subject matter experts today who are qualified to play armchair general (Colonel, actually).
This was a trap that Ukraine set up to protect against their weaknesses and ut...
2022-06-04 21:43:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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There have been reports for three days about an entire Russian BTG getting ambushed at night in the Kherson Oblast and being wiped out.
We haven't reported on it because it is a lofty claim and we firmly believe that a lost BTG in the open farmland of Kherson would be impossible to hi...
2022-06-03 21:04:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn February of 2022, the 35th Combined Arms Army under the command of Lt. General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik moved into Ukraine from Belarus. Three of the five brigades entered Ukraine. The 165th Artillery Brigade, the 38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, and the 64th Guards Motor Rifle B...
2022-06-03 19:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostI know not everyone on the Flash Reports has access to the Situation Reports. Yesterday we changed our assessment on Severodonetsk.
"We can no longer determine when Russian forces will take control of Severodonetsk. Ukrainian forces continue to work on minimizing losses and maintaining comb...
2022-06-03 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm sure you've been told in the past, "if it is too good to be true, it probably is."
It has been a week since Ramzan Kadyrov claimed Chechen forces captured all of Severodonetsk. It's been 24 hours since he double-downed on that claim and called the RIA and Russian State Media liars. Toda...
2022-06-02 22:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostQuestion is for our Patreons. I believe in direct conversation.
Here is my reality. My wife works as a doctor at a large hospital. Loves her job but the stories of the problems in the American medical system of shrinking budgets, more demands, more hours, and shrinking pay? This is systemwi...
2022-06-02 18:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pure Opinion
These guys have made so much work for us since March. Not the good, you're making money kind of work. The time-consuming, have to double-check their claims, no they aren't true - again - kind of work.
We've hinted in lives and in Situation Report...
2022-06-01 19:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostUkrainians are holding Severodonetsk after moving to preferred defensive positions. Reports are mixed but fighting has increased with reports that Russia controls 50% to 70% of the city. Ukrainians moved back to better defensible areas and where they have a clear exit route across the Siverskyi D...
2022-06-01 19:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostThere have been interesting developments in the last 24 hours in the Severodonetsk salient with as much intrigue off the battlefield as on the battlefield.
As of five hours ago, Russian forces have made no additional gains in Severodonetsk since yesterday. I added the "as of five hours ago"...
2022-06-01 16:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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It appears that Ukrainian forces are making a tactical withdrawal from Severodonetsk. Claims put Russian control (military definition) at 50% to 70%. They gains are coming at terrible losses in proportion to territorial gains.
No encirclement and there continues to be no progress from...
2022-05-31 18:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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The SITREP is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in...
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In another region, we're getting a lot of reports of activity we're working on confirming.
1) Strong evidence that Russia-backed militias troops withdrew from Nove and gave up defending the M-20 highway that leads north to Russia. We reported yesterday the forces in the village were at extr...
2022-05-28 21:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe can safely say this. There is a significant counteroffensive happening in the northern part of the Kherson Oblast. There is a lack of specific intelligence. However, this has a very similar feel to the North Kharkiv Counteroffensive. The Ukrainian General Staff and Southern Command are both st...
2022-05-28 21:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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First order of business, there will be a SITREP today!
I had planned to do one yesterday but I lost Internet (local area outage) for about two hours during what would normally be prime review/editing time and I took it as an omen. It also left me unable to post beyond a couple of small twee...
2022-05-27 17:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Intense fighting continues in Lyman. Sentinel One from May 26 shows a lot of fires and that artillery is firing further south than on May 23.
Russia Today is reporting that Russia has captured Lyman, which ironically almost certainly means they have not. Ukrainian officials report the situa...
2022-05-26 20:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostTransparency.
I'm broken. That's the blunt, direct assessment.
You'd think that after 90 plus days of everything I've seen, everything I've read, every fact the team has checked that I've had to summarize, that 19 kids being shot to death in a school would just be, "meh, whatever." 2022-05-26 01:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post