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[Link] Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them

Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com

Russia has lost almost 500 tanks in its invasion of Ukraine, according to independent battlefield researchers at the open source intelligence group Oryx. According to Ukraine, the number is closer to 700.

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[Link] Ukraine accused of helicopter attack on oil depot inside Russia

Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

Russia has accused Ukraine of sending attack helicopters across the border to strike an oil storage facility in what would be the first raid on Russian soil since the outbreak of the war if confirmed.

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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war

Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.

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[Link] Ukraine Canceled Crypto Airdrop Because Unethical Investors Wanted ‘Profit’

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, crypto donations started to pour in from around the world as people rushed to help the country in its defense against a foreign aggressor.

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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.

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[Link] Zelenskyy Says Ukrainian Forces Are Ready to ‘Fight to the Last Soldier’

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian armed forces are ready to fight as long as it takes to roll back Russia’s invasion.

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[Link] Huge Russian convoy outside Kyiv disperses after reports of food, fuel shortages

Read: 13/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Satellites have captured imagery of a convoy of Russian forces that had been slowly advancing towards the Ukraine capital having dispersed and redeployed into nearby locations.

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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

Read: 9/3/2022 time.com

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).

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[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.

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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall

Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.

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[Link] We Followed a Foreign Fighter on His Way to Join the War in Ukraine

Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com

PRZEMYŚL, Poland - In the dead of night outside the Polish town of Przemyśl, an ex-British soldier named Luke hopped into a taxi after flying from Birmingham, England earlier that day, and made his way to a nearby border checkpoint with one goal in mind: Joining the Ukrainian war effort.

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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.

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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua

Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au

Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.

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[Link] We Talked to Survivors of Ethiopia’s Brutal Civil War

Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com

After 13 months of brutal war between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a rebel group in the country’s north, Tigrayan forces now say they’ve withdrawn from neighboring regions.

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[Link] Ethiopian rebels form new alliance to oust PM as forces advance on the capital

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

The war, which has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2 million from their homes, has intensified in recent weeks. The Tigray People's Liberation Front claims to have captured several towns in recent days and says it is considering marching on the capital.

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[Link] ‘We are living in terror’: Ethiopians say PM’s tactics have stoked war

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Addis Ababa was its usual bustling self a year ago. Events were taking place day and night in the Ethiopian capital; bars and restaurants were filled with visitors from other African countries where stricter anti-Covid measures had been put in place. Now all that has changed.

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[Link] Call of Duty marketing finds a new level of tastelessness

Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

The latest marketing push for Call of Duty: Vanguard wants you to believe its graphics are so realistic that conflict photographers can't tell the difference between the videogame and reality.

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[Link] UN urges ‘verifiable withdrawal’ of Eritrean troops from Tigray

Read: 14/7/2021 www.aljazeera.com

Human Rights Council approves resolution calling for ‘swift and verifiable withdrawal of Eritrean troops’ from conflict-torn Ethiopian region.

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