The link to the map is here - but honestly, by the time this is published, it will almost certainly be out of date.
Ukraine has now advanced 50 kilometers in 48 hours, liberating 700 square kilometers of ...
2022-09-08 20:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Vitamin fortified as part of a healthy meal for your head holes, now with 100% more SITREP.
Today's report is 67 pages even skipping key sections. Like yesterday, updates keep coming in as we're writing and analyzing.
What's the big story? Oh nothing much, just a 45-kilometer maneuver resulting in a 30-kilometer advance in 24 hours that has encircled Russia...
2022-09-08 10:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostI got an e-mail a few minutes ago. It was a list of rankings for Apple Podcasts for Daily News for a long list of countries.
There was one that stood out.
Sixth place.
In Ukraine.
We're not even in Russian or Ukrainian (and we have had requests to do a Ukrainian version).
Sixth place.
Because God damn right the truth matters. We're doing something right...
2022-09-08 05:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostKharkiv/Izyum: Here is the map
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Today's report is 52 pages and was repeatedly rewritten.
What's the big story? We're going back to March-May with 2X a day smaller updates for Situation Reports. Things are moving that fast. Ukrainian forces have advanced 23 kilometers in 12 hours north of Izyum, smashing through Russian defe...
2022-09-07 11:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostIzyum.
It's Izyum.
Two weeks ago, one of the belligerents blew up the bridge at Bairak. A few days later, Russian state media news organization IZ recorded a staged video of Russian forces firing over the Siverskyi Donets at Ukrainian positions in Bairak in the area of the bridge. We updated the map, listed Bairak as liberated, and coded the small offensive. Quietly, this rais...
2022-09-06 13:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The team took the day off (thank you, Linnea, for the podcast, you slayed it today) for Labor Day in the United States. We had stated last week (hello, new subscribers) that there wouldn't be a situation report today.
The map...
2022-09-06 04:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post
After months of pretending that the Kremlin was not using oil, natural gas, and coal as an economic weapon, the gloves came off.
Russia has announced that the Nordstream 1 pipeline will not be turned back on until sanctions are lifted.
The same sanctions that the Kremlin has said for six months aren't hurting Russia and are only hurting Europe, the United States, and their all...
2022-09-05 21:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
But you said there wouldn't be a podcast today!
Credit goes to Linnea, who offered. I told her to take the day off as planned, but because I didn't do a podcast on Sunday (keep reading) and the September 4 Situation Report required a total rewrite of the Kherson section at 23:30 PDT, I asked if the offer was still on the table...
As for no podcast on Sunday, I was up to almost 06:00...
2022-09-05 17:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today's report is 51 pages and somehow took much longer to prepare than expected.
What's the big story? Ukraine advanced as much as 18 kilometers - today. Forces have punched through key Russian defenses in the north, with Russian VDV forces abandoning multiple positions.
The second sto...
2022-09-05 10:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostUkrainian forces crossed the Siverskyi Donets on August 25 and liberated Brusivka and likely liberated Staryi Karavan. Today, Ukrainian forces liberated Ozerne from Chechen Kadyrovites.
What a day!
2022-09-04 11:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
When I wrote there was good news tonight, I didn't expect this. Vysokopilya has been liberated, and the Vysokopilya salient has collapsed.
Due to operational security, this likely happened earlier in the week. On September 2, we observed a large group of fires in and around Kostyrka and shared that in the Situation Report. We had 2022-09-04 11:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's report is 50 pages and somehow took much longer to prepare than expected.
What's the big story? It isn't just Kherson. It's Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Bakhmut and Izyum. OK - total personnel note. As I type, Pandora is playing "Fanfare for the Common Man." I can't think of anything more appropriate. There isn't any "big" news in any one place, but Ukrainian forces are now chipping away ...
2022-09-04 11:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostAnother late report and just to set expectations, the good news is not in Kherson but in other places. We had predicted that if either belligerent reached a state of combat destroyed, things would start to fall apart fast in multiple locations.
There are A LOT of blue arrows on the map tonight. Nothing huge. Russia is going to have to make some very hard decisions on some of these axes if...
2022-09-04 06:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Igor "Girkin" Strelkov reported two days ago that Ukraine had launched a counteroffensive on Novoselivka and had partially liberated the settlement.
This morning, the General Staff reported DNR forces attacked Novobakhmutivka, which means the settlement was liberated. This was a key advance as part of the plan to encircle Avdiivka. Russia was using the settlement to attack Krasnohorivka f...
2022-09-03 20:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's report is 65 pages.
What's the big story? It has been zero days since the Kremlin reminded the world that the United States is pressing for war, and the Russians have nuclear weapons, and they'll use them, gosh darn it! Oh, as an added bonus, there were renewed threats against Moldova.
The second story? Russia does this when things aren't going the way the Kremlin want...
2022-09-03 11:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup. It's Groundhog Day. The Russian Ministry of Defense has made it's 8th claim since August 5 that Pisky, west of Donetsk, is really captured this time and we really mean it.
Honest.
Captured. Didn't you see the video yesterday? Captured. Done! Victory!
2022-09-02 23:22:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Shocked, I tell you!
Shocked!
We are shocked!
Gazprom has announced that the Nordstream 1 pipeline to Germany can't be restarted on September 2 due to technical issues.
Who could have ever seen this coming? Who, I ask? Who!
Maybe Putin should look up "strategic gas reserves." Most European nations saw this coming and have scrambled to fill their reserves before the...
2022-09-02 19:10:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Drop a comment and give us your best caption for this photo. Please keep it moderately civil and no, you can't make graphic comments. I'm sure we will have some good ones!
2022-09-02 10:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's report is 58 pages.
What's the big story? We have a lot of updates about Kherson and we're making some calls on territorial gains based on information in the public domain. It's good news.
The second story? Putin has declared the Russian military has until September 15 to secure the Donbas. Or else, what? Exactly.
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast fo...
2022-09-02 10:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostPro-Russian account Rybar reports that Russian troops were completely pushed out of Vysokopillya and Olyhne, and are now fighting in the southern parts of both towns in an attempt to regain control.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Novopetrivka is being shelled by Russian artillery, implying that Ukraine is either in the town, contesting control, or using th...
We can share some news and have updated the maps this afternoon.
Based on multiple reports from Russian sources, we've expanded the Inhulets River bridgehead.
Ukraine has liberated Kostromka (a speck on the map) and is contesting Bruskynske, which is a strategic location. The T-2207 Ground Line of Communication (GLOC - supply line) is now contested in three locations. This impacts t...
2022-09-01 20:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's report is 38 pages.
What's the big story? The counteroffensive and how impressive operational security is.
The second story? Fighting has practically stopped everywhere else in Ukraine (except Bakhmut area). Russia is trying to figure out how to react.
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for yesterday is available at:
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for yesterday is available at:
Today's report is 62 pages - one-third of that about the counteroffensive.
What's the big story? Three settlements in Kherson liberated that we can tell you about - there are other things we know that we can't share.
The second story? IAEA inspectors are on their way to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for yesterday is availa...
2022-08-31 09:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostMikhail Gorbachev is vilified in modern Russia. His reforms which led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Iron Curtain, are seen as the root cause of all of the current problems in modern Russia.
Our favorite FSB Colonel, wanted war criminal, and Kremlin pariah, Igor "Girkin" Strelkov, wrote the following - eulogy.
"This creature sh... 2022-08-30 23:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In respecting Ukrainian officials' request for a complete media blackout - we won't share specifics. But I know things, good things. The things are not related to this picture.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and it will rush to fill any void it finds. That applies to the social media space too. With Ukrainian officials locking out embedded reporters for the coming week, confiscating cell phones ...
2022-08-30 22:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
There are 21 seconds of dead air at the start of the podcast, and we are aware of the issue and are working out why the opening roll isn't playing. Thank you for your understanding. Please just fast-forward and don't turn your volume up like I did.
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for yesterday is available at: