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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-29 05:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 cooperate with the Russian occupation forces to provide an evacuation of trapped civilians. Every pr...
2022-03-28 19:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Our problems with the TikTok platform started in the fall of 2021. We have made an extensive good faith effort to try and work with their community support and legal team.
On January 28, 2022, utilizing our professional network, we were able to make direct contact with senior leadership within TikTok legal. We received an almost instant response, that the matter would be directed to appro...
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 smarter than us to be able to ask, "can you validate this?"
"What are your thoughts on this?"
<... 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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-28 02:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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.
Dean Kirby of iNews wrote this investigative piece. He used social intelligence and Maxar and ...
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 been highlighted. Updated version removes draft language about the cruise missile strike on Lviv, edi...
Outstanding opinion pieces dripping with facts.
That's it. That's the whole post.
Competing comedy acts.
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 also know this is well below reality.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy report...
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 in the city is very curtailed. Reports are a fuel depot, a TV transmission tower, and a large grocer...
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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-26 07:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 how the military defines control.
First for Irpin and Makarov. Military leaders considers a city...
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 seeing videos of continued fighting within the city, and areas where Russian forces do not have control, ...
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 holding those in power accountable? The people across our channels saying, "yes, the truth matters,...
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 economic write-up. We thank you for your understanding.
Patreons at Bronze Level or high now h...
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 Airport.
Multiple videos and pictures on social intelligence, as well as NASA FIRMS data (picture...
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 in infantry and a lot of time playing paintball? Maybe. People that know what they are doing - a big...
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 Orsk was destroyed at dock, and the LSS Kunikov is reported to be damaged.
No idea on damage to...
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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-24 05:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs 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, but were pushed back. This is almost 20 kilometers north of Borodyanka!
Is there fighting ...
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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-23 05:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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 edges of Hostomel, forcing troops in the city as well as Bucha to dig in to stationary positions ov...
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 the Pentagon, multiple credible reports, and NASA FIRMS data, the Ukrainian military has launched wh...
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 videos due to time restrictions or a need to be concise.
Malcontent News creates one to two SI...
2022-03-22 04:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostYou 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 story was edited about 20 minutes later to remove that part of the story, and ten minutes later...
2022-03-21 22:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 since the end of World War II, but has been more a geographically oddity than a potential flashpoint. ...
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 States and Russia are at the point of "rupture."
The United States has had a diplomatic presence...
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 killing a Russian Major General.
Additionally, Ukrainian forces are strengthen their position southe...
2022-03-21 19:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post