Patreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
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The Mayor of Mariupol has called for the complete evacuation of the city due to the humanitarian situation. We agree with the assessment that the Russian and Chechen forces attacking the city are in a campign to eradicate the population.
City leaders have made multiple documented offers to ...
2022-03-28 19:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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On January 28, 2022, utilizing our professional network, we were able to make direct contact with senior leadership wit...
2022-03-28 18:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that our efforts are based only among our team would be understating the global network we've built to help you understand the Russia-Ukraine War. Our network spans the globe, including resources within Ukraine. We are incredibly fortunate to have forged relationships with people much smar...
2022-03-28 17:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe mayor of Irpin has confirmed the suburb of Kyiv has been liberated.
Russian troops surrounded in the Velkya Dymerka area, east of Kyiv, attempted a breakout overnight.
Patreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
The report is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in our ...
In the March 19, 2022 SITREP we wrote, "The head of the Donetsk Oblast Military-Civil Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, claimed that Russian troops have set up concentration camps in Manhushi, west of Mariupol, and Melekin, a coast town to the southwest."
As always, the source was provided.<...
2022-03-27 08:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: The password has been removed. Thank you for your understanding.
UPDATE 2: In the process of resolving the password issue, the draft version of the report was published in error. Materially there was a minor error about the alleged SRBM strike in Severodonetsk. The correction has b...
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On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported 1,351 servicemembers have died in the first full month of the "special military operation."
Compared to other conflicts fought by modern militaries in the last 30 years, this is still a very high number. We als...
2022-03-26 18:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostFour big stories we're following this morning. We're going to put them in the reverse order of importance.
1) The western city of Lviv was struck by three cruise missiles, with reports of explosions rocking the city. We don't know what targets were hit, but we do know that Internet service ...
2022-03-26 16:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostPatreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
The report is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in our ...
The Pentagon says Russian forces are losing control of Kherson.
The mayors of Irpin and Makarov claim that Ukrainian forces don't control their cities.
What does this mean, and what does "control" mean?
The are two issues - how civilians define control versus the military and ho...
2022-03-25 21:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe are seeing a lot of videos from Mariupol of Russian forces moving in parts of the city. There is a video from Russia Today within Mariupol, but we don't know if their reporters shot the video or when it was shot. Geolocation is challenging due to the damage in the city.
We are also seein...
2022-03-25 19:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure what has us more amazed.
Is it the growing support of many people who recently discovered our little news organization? People, who want to get news from an organization dedicated to defending the First Amendment (a United States thing), supporting underrepresented peoples, and...
2022-03-25 18:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostEditor's Note: We spent far more time today than expected verifying information out of Mariupol. There was a tremendous amount of disinformation and psychological operations in an attempt to break the will of the city's defenders.
Because of this, we did not do an in-depth geopolitical or e...
2022-03-25 06:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Russian forces northwest of Kyiv are not surrounded, but the pocket they are in has been reduced in the last 24 hours. The Ukrainian military has the capability to surround up to 12,000 Russian troops, located mostly in Bucha and Hostomel. That would include retaking the Antonov International Air...
2022-03-24 21:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting a better idea of how the Ukrainians are using volunteer forces, and solid evidence of foreign fighters being unarmed, given only 10 rounds if they even get a weapon, and held against their will are untrue.
Foreign fighters who's entire combat duty was a four year tour of duty ...
2022-03-24 21:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Russia Today released this video of the LST Orsk being unloaded in Berdyansk, we commented about the terrible OPSEC in the SITREP (I'm too tired to dig which date)
A couple of hours ago Ukraine made naval history, becoming the first nation to sink a warship with an SRBM.
The Or...
Patreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
The report is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in our ...
As part of the Google News family, I am proud to report that as of today, Malcontent News (our website) has been blocked in Russia.
2022-03-23 21:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'm extremely busy with the real job today. I can't do a deep explainer, but there is something in the general staff report that explains what we saw on NASA FIRMS last night, and covered in the 3/22 SITREP.
The general staff reported that Russian forces attacked the town of Teterivs'ke, bu...
2022-03-23 17:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostPatreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
The report is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in our ...
Update on the Ukrainian offensive - this is what we know.
On 3/17 Ukraine secured the area south of Lyutizh after the March 16-17 counteroffensive
Also on 3/17 Ukraine forces pushed Russian troops back from Irpin, with the city contested
Also on 3/17 Ukraine forces pushed on the...
2022-03-22 19:03:06 +0000 UTC View PostBreaking news out of Kyiv. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced a curfew yesterday (we missed that in our SITREP). The last time Kyiv was put under curfew, the Ukrainian military launched a major counteroffensive northwest of the city and pushed Russian forces out of Brovary.
According to ...
2022-03-22 17:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostPatreons at Bronze Level or high now have access to our Situational Report [SITREP] for Russia and Ukraine, with annotation and links to supporting source(s).
The report is the foundation of our updates on TikTok, and at times will contain additional information that was not shared in our ...
You have likely seen the reports that the Russian Tabloid Komsomolskaya published a story about the ongoing situation in Ukraine. The original version of the story included what the author indicated were casualty numbers of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
KIA: 9.861
WIA: 16,153
The geopolitical situation involving the Russia-Ukraine War is getting more tenuous.
Russia has broken off peace talks with Japan over the Kuril islands, and has canceled the visas of Japanese citizens who travel there for family or work. The possession of the islands has been in dispute si...
2022-03-21 21:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Russian Foreign Ministry summoned US Ambassador John J. Sullivan to reprimand him for remarks made by President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling Russian President Vladimir Putin, "a war criminal."
The foreign ministry said that relations between the United St...
2022-03-21 19:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostSatellite images of Kherson airbase indicate that Russian forces have ended air operations and evacuated the helicopters based there.
The base has been struck by multiple artillery strikes over the last two weeks, destroying an estimated two-dozen aircraft, 16 in a single strike, and killin...
2022-03-21 19:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post