Day 5, Phase 3
On the Occasion of Putin’s Death. Photo c/o Ruslan Lobanov Phase 1 ended on Day 30, March 25, after Russia failed to decapitate Kyiv.Phase 2 ended on Day 74,...
Day 4, Phase 3
Breakthrough map c/o @JominiW Mounts, laser aiming devices, night vision — everything sent — is now, finally, unboxed and being used in the deadly hide-and-...
Day 3, Phase 3
Latent Failure versus Active Failure America’s cheesy approach towards Ukraine was on full display on Tuesday during the public portion threats hearing at...
Day 2, Phase 3
Map c/o Nathan No one is sure what’s going on, including Uncle Joe, who has reportedly told Tiger Team to stop leaking information1 about what intelligence...
Day 1, Phase 3
Map c/o @war_mapper Jim, who has been stumbling around the contact line for two months, has announced the end of his tour of duty in Ukraine. Bye, Jim....
Phase 2 Ends
Photo by Stas Kazljiuk We are entertained today with several reports, starting with a bonkers article about how Tiger Team shares secrets with Kyiv and what...
Day 43, Phase 2
M777 The just-in-time delivery and deployment of ultra-light 155mm field howitzers on the battlefield in Donbas doesn’t bode well for the longevity of tens...
Day 42, Phase 2
Map c/o Nathan Ukraine’s counteroffensive northeast of Kharkiv has picked up speed over the last couple of days as mobile units equipped with modern tactical...
Day 41, Phase 2
Don’t Fight in Another Country’s War. By Graeme Wood for The Atlantic. (April 26, 2022) I read though Graeme’s article quickly. Yes, volunteer fighters here...
Day 40, Phase 2
Map c/o Nathan (May 3, 2022) Forward lines of own troops (FLOTs) aren’t hard to find1. Study yours in the remaining days before we enter the war’s next...
Day 39, Phase 2
Photo c/o Reuters Night vision gadgets, longer-range weapons like armed drones, howitzers, antiaircraft systems, anti-ship missiles, armored trucks,...
Day 38, Phase 2
Gregory, Nancy, Jim, Jason and Adam. Photo c/o Jason Jason was member of Nancy’s delegation visiting Kyiv. A Democrat from Colorado, a veteran and a member...
Day 37, Phase 2
Nancy is in town. She brought Adam with her. Chien-Chi Chang and Robert Feldman somewhere in Zaporizhia.region. The reason I was disappointed to see...
Day 36, Phase 2
Happy Evil by Infraction is almost ideal background noise for infra-red-illuminated drone clips spliced together for this video. Soft Evil might be...
Day 35, Phase 2
Photo c/o ДвiЩ by David Guttenfelder The loud explosion you heard yesterday evening was a cruise missile crashing into a 25-storey residential building in...
Day 34, Phase 2
I forgot to take my passports with me yesterday. Two kids with machine guns thought I looked suspicious and asked for ID at a checkpoint. Instead, I pulled...
Day 33, Phase 2
Couple cycle past destroyed building in the village of Borodyanka, Kyiv region, liberated from Russian forces. Photo by Vadim Ghirda There isn’t much new to...
Day 32, Phase 2
Map c/o Deepstate UA Russia’s invasion progress is pathetic. They are getting surrounded, smushed and turned into fertilizer. It’s the 62nd day of the...
Day 31, Phase 2
St. Michael’s Monastery. Photo c/o Stephanie Byrne (April 24, 2022). Phase 3 (May 9) starts in 15 days. Each successive phase is longer than the previous...
Day 30, Phase 2
Someone asks, ‘What are you holding in your hands?’ ‘A bedpan.’ ‘You’re kidding me. That’s not a bedpan. It’s a corridor to Transdniester.’ There is no...
Day 29, Phase 2
Escaping war-torn home towns in Ukraine. Photo by Chien-Chi Chang I don’t want to write about the war this morning. Chien-Chi is in town and we’ve decided to...
Day 28, Phase 2
Somewhere in Kharkiv. Photo by Chris McGrath c/o Ze Some say that minus U.S. military assistance most Ukrainians would already be walking around drunk in...
Day 27, Phase 2
Dead Russian soldier turning into fertilizer somewhere near New York, Donetsk region. Photo c/o Brosok Mangusta Russia’s attempts to seize control of eastern...
Day 26, Phase 2
Photo by Rodrigo Abd I physically experienced the journalistic side of bullshit with Iuliia Mendel this morning, twice. First this interview. And then a...
Day 25, Phase 2
Map c/o @war_mapper I have no plans to spend lots of time thinking about current tactical aspects of Russia’s further invasion of Donbas. We’ll leave that to...
Day 24, Phase 2
A bombed out residential building in Kyiv. Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters Claire Parker for The Washington Post writes about genocide on the 54th day of...
Day 23, Phase 2
Car passes an oil refinery in Lysychansk, Marko Djurica (Reuters) Nate at CURRENT AFFAIRS chats up “one of the most influential intellectuals in the world”...
Day 22, Phase 2
Photo c/o 93rd Brigade AFU It’s Day 52 and the future of Europe after the Cold War is still up for grabs1. A quick peek at what Ukraine experts were saying...
Day 21, Phase 2
Time flies. Only two months ago, I was thinking about how to roast chicken. Today Franklin is making comparisons with Passover and saying “Ukraine might...
Day 20, Phase 2
Photo c/o Bochkala_#The War! We’re all familiar with the loop-the-loop problem. The basic idea is to take something and propel it around a vertical loop....
Day 19, Phase 2
Somewhere in Bucha, Kyiv region. Photo by Roman Pilipey @epaphotos U.S. President Joe Biden has used the word genocide to describe Russia’s further invasion...
Day 18, Phase 2
Google Ngram Viewer I spent a lot of time during 2014 and 2015 watching battle clips from eastern Ukraine. Most of them were uploaded to a server,...
Day 17, Phase 2
Painting c/o Konstiantyn Kochanovsky Time flies. Only two months have passed since Putin’s beano with Macron in Moscow when he blurted out that Ukraine...
Day 16, Phase 2
UK Defense Intelligence map BBC on April 9, 2022 tells a story about the imminent inevitability1 of Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. and...
Day 15, Phase 2
Nathan’s map Over the last month and a half, we have alternatively explained, described and compared the prelude and execution of the ongoing unspeakable...
Day 14, Phase 2
As Ukraine braces for a second round, the West has a duty to step up by Danid Ignatius (The Washington Post. April 8, 2002) *** Maybe we should start by...
Day 13, Phase 2
Map c/o @war_mapper I’ll concentrate on the military and military-political situation today. I see Stefan has written a very, very long brief. I congratulate...
Day 12, Phase 2
Bombed out Borodyanka photo c/o Andriy Tsaplienko In Ukraine your internationalism can and should be your patriotism. We wrote abut Borodyanka on Day 9 of...
Day 11, Phase 2
Photo: Vadim Ghirda, Ronaldo Schemidt, УНІАН c/o Ze Battleground buffoonery. I just watched CNN’s Ben Wederman almost commit suicide on the outskirts of...
Day 10, Phase 2
Photo c/o Стопкор The “vile purulence“ London-based practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov told us about before the invasion started was on full display...
Day 9, Phase 2
Photo c/o Bochkala_#TheWar c/o Reuters It’s a quiet cold Sunday morning in Kyiv. I sit down to read about Ukraine… Five minutes later, I’m stuck in the...
Day 8, Phase 2
The actual circumstances of the mental disease were unglamorous in the extreme, but back in America these details were overshadowed by efforts to find a...
Day 7, Phase 2
Photo by Mssrs: Aris Messinis, Alex Kent, Chris McGrath, Sergi Mykhalchuk Ze’s official Telegram posts photographs taken in all parts of Ukraine daily. So...
Day 6, Phase 2
Photo c/o Bochkala_# Somehwere in Ukraine We know knowledge matters, but although we know that Americans who are avid TikTok users, for example, behave...
Day 5, Phase 2
Photo c/o The Sacrifice. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986. As we attempted to point out diplomatically on Day 18 (Fred's Non-predictive Intelligence Floppery), Putin...
Day 4, Phase 2
Nathan’s map. *** London-based practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov answers the question, “When will it end?” No one knows, and no one knows what “it”...
Day 3, Phase 2
Map c/o Третя Сила Putin’s Special Operation continues to resemble Carlos Castaneda’s A Separate Reality, without the ibogaine. The apocalypse forecasted has...
Day 2, Phase 2
Map c/o Washington Post (c/o Fred) ... Some genius at WAPO decided to label Russia-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions as “separatist-controlled,” making...
Day 1, Phase 2
Kharkiv Economic University. Photo Photo c/o Третя Сила There's something about senseless destruction in this photograph, which evokes the Eternal Struggle,...
Day 30
Nathan’s map Could this be Tyler, my “hero,” from Day 29? Or maybe it’s a different TikTok legionnaire wandering around the outskirts of Kyiv. There are lots...