r/europe • u/ModeratorsOfEurope • Mar 22 '24
Russo-Ukrainian War War in Ukraine Megathread LVI (57)
This megathread is meant for discussion of the current Russo-Ukrainian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Please read our current rules, but also the extended rules below.
News sources:
You can also get up-to-date information and news from the r/worldnews live thread, which are more up-to-date tweets about the situation.
Current rules extension:
Extended r/europe ruleset to curb hate speech and disinformation:
While we already ban hate speech, we'll remind you that hate speech against the civilians of the combatants is against our rules, including but not limited to Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Syrians, Azeris, Armenians, Georgians, etc. The same applies to the population of countries actively helping Ukraine or Russia.
Calling for the killing of invading troops or leaders is allowed, but the mods have the discretion to remove egregious comments, and the ones that disrespect the point made above. The limits of international law apply.
No unverified reports of any kind in the comments or in submissions on r/europe. We will remove videos of any kind unless they are verified by reputable outlets. This also affects videos published by Ukrainian and Russian government sources.
Absolutely no justification of this invasion.
In addition to our rules, we ask you to add a NSFW/NSFL tag if you're going to link to graphic footage or anything can be considered upsetting, including combat footage or dead people.
Submission rules
These are rules for submissions to r/europe front-page.
No status reports about the war unless they have major implications (e.g. "City X still holding" would not be allowed, "Russia takes major city" would be allowed. "Major attack on Kherson repelled" would also be allowed.)
All dot ru domains have been banned by Reddit as of 30 May. They are hardspammed, so not even mods can approve comments and submissions linking to Russian site domains.
- Some Russian sites that ends with
.com
are also hardspammed, like TASS and Interfax, and mods can't re-approve them. - The Internet Archive and similar archive websites are also blacklisted here, by us or Reddit.
- Some Russian sites that ends with
We've been adding substack domains in our u/AutoModerator script, but we aren't banning all of them. If your link has been removed, please notify the moderation team, explaining who's the person managing that substack page.
We ask you or your organization to not spam our subreddit with petitions or promote their new non-profit organization. While we love that people are pouring all sorts of efforts on the civilian front, we're limited on checking these links to prevent scam.
No promotion of a new cryptocurrency or web3 project, other than the official Bitcoin and ETH addresses from Ukraine's government.
META
Link to the previous Megathread LVI (56)
Questions and Feedback: You can send feedback via r/EuropeMeta or via modmail.
Donations:
If you want to donate to Ukraine, check this thread or this fundraising account by the Ukrainian national bank.
Fleeing Ukraine We have set up a wiki page with the available information about the border situation for Ukraine here. There's also information at Visit Ukraine.Today - The site has turned into a hub for "every Ukrainian and foreign citizen [to] be able to get the necessary information on how to act in a critical situation, where to go, bomb shelter addresses, how to leave the country or evacuate from a dangerous region, etc."
Other links of interest
Live Map of Ukraine site and Institute of War have maps that are considered reliable by mainstream media.
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- DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH "War of Fakes". Deutsche Welle (DW) has reported it as being a source of fake news, and the Russian Defense Ministry has linked this site in their tweets before.
DeepL extension for Google Chrome and DeepL extension for Firefox. DeepL is a good alternative to Google Translate for Russian and Ukrainian texts.
Please obey the request of the Ukrainian government to refrain from sharing info about Ukrainian troop movements
🇫🇷 Mégasujet 2024 French legislative election
An early legislative election is being held in France on 30 June 2024, with a second round on 7 July, to choose all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The election follows the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, who decided to call a snap election in the aftermath of the 2024 European Parliament election in France in which the opposition National Rally made substantial gains against his L'Europe Ensemble list. The latter lost a considerable number of seats compared to the 2019 parliamentary election.
The legislative election features four main blocs:Ensemble, the coalition of pro-Macron forces including Renaissance, the Democratic Movement, and Horizons; the New Popular Front (NFP), bringing together the main parties of the left, including La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, The Ecologists, and the French Communist Party; the National Rally (RN), which also jointly supported several dozen candidates backed by Éric Ciotti of The Republicans (LR) in addition to its own candidates; and the vast majority of other LR candidates, who were supported by the national investiture committee of the party.
Pre-election opinion polls suggested that high turnout and the level of tripolarisation of the electorate between Ensemble, the New Popular Front, and the National Rally could lead to an unprecedented number of three-way runoffs in the second round of the election. Analysts also noted that the consolidation of the electorate behind these three main political forces could also result in total institutional deadlock after the elections in the event that no bloc has the votes to secure support from an absolute majority of the National Assembly, which could force Macron to call a second snap election as soon as a year after the 2024 election.
Live feed from France24 and English live video (thx u/quitaskingmetomakean)
r/europe • u/kaptainmaximus • 1h ago
Map This is Interesting. Bosnia got Neum, at least.
r/europe • u/linknewtab • 4h ago
Data Germany: Electricity production from coal fell below 20% for the first time in history in the first half of 2024 as renewables reach a new record
r/europe • u/-Joel06 • 20h ago
Data Study shows Gen Z is increasingly more homophobic than previous generations in Spain
r/europe • u/Zerone06 • 21h ago
News Turkish medicine students ignored Islamist faculty members' homophobic censorship attempt during the Hippocratic Oath
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Historical Bucharest, capital of Romania, in 1986, under Socialist regime. Photos by Tamás Urbán
News French election live: France's far right makes big gains in first round of parliamentary election
r/europe • u/Porodicnostablo • 1h ago
Historical People diving from the Pont d'Iena into the Seine with the Eiffel Tower in the background, 1945.
r/europe • u/Full-Sherbert-8060 • 12h ago
Picture 72 kilometers of newly installed "Olympistes" lanes will allow visitors to access every Paris Olympic site on a bicycle
r/europe • u/Born-Dot8179 • 23h ago
News Italian officials will pay up to $32,000 for you to move to Tuscany — but there's a catch
On this day On this day in 1894 Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames in London, was inaugurated.
r/europe • u/Wagamaga • 2h ago
News 30-degree heat is the new normal in Lithuania – experts
r/europe • u/BashkirTatar • 23h ago
Historical The flag of Ichkeria over a city destroyed by the russian army. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, 1990s
r/europe • u/dat_9600gt_user • 4h ago
News Man convicted of destroying swallow’s nest in Poland’s first case of its kind
notesfrompoland.comr/europe • u/JackRogers3 • 1h ago
Opinion Article Capitalism is in worse shape in Europe
r/europe • u/FormaggioMontBlanc • 22h ago
OC Picture 10€ worth of groceries in western Ukraine
~500 g of white bread 900 ml of milk 370 g of sour cream 900 g of pelmeni 180 g of butter ~400 g of onions 350 g of cheese 2 l of water Total ~420 ₴ (The bread isn’t written on the receipts)
r/europe • u/guyoffthegrid • 20h ago
News Belgian PM to Orbán: EU Presidency does not mean you are the boss of Europe
r/europe • u/Wagamaga • 20h ago
News Tens of thousands protest far right party convention in Germany
News The Kremlin princelings cementing Putin’s rule - ‘This is about succession’: Russian president appoints family members and friends to senior positions
r/europe • u/dioksinas • 1d ago
Picture Marking 100 Years of Lithuania's Song Celebration | Kaunas, Lithuania
r/europe • u/EUstrongerthanUS • 21h ago
Picture The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD. The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest
r/europe • u/SunEater888 • 12h ago
News Several US military bases in Europe on heightened alert amid possible terrorist threat
r/europe • u/Kenobi_High_Ground • 1d ago
News Nigel Farage speech interrupted by banner showing smirking Vladimir Putin | Politics News
r/europe • u/DarkSideOfTheNuum • 22h ago
News Everyone talks about the "shift to the right" - and remains silent about the success of an Islamic party in Belgium [Translation in comments]
r/europe • u/Straight_Ad2258 • 13h ago