War in Ukraine Megathread LI

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](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/wiki/community_rules), but also the extended rules below.

# News sources:

– [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/russia-ukraine-war-at-a-glance)

– [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine).

– [BBC News](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60525350)

– [Al Jazeera English](https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/ukraine-russia-crisis/)

You can also get up-to-date information and news from the [r/worldnews live thread](https://www.reddit.com/live/18hnzysb1elcs), which are more up-to-date tweets about the situation.

### **Current rules extension:**

Extended [r/europe ruleset](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/wiki/community_rules) to curb hate speech and disinformation:

– No hatred against any group, including the populations of the combatants (Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Syrians, Azeris, Armenians, Georgians, etc)

– **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.
– The Internet Archive and similar archive websites are also blacklisted here, by us or Reddit.
– We’ve been adding substack domains in our AutoModerator, 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 L**](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/10eps9y/war_in_ukraine_megathread_l/)

**Questions and Feedback**: You can send feedback via r/EuropeMeta or via [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/europe).

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**Donations:**

If you want to donate to Ukraine, check [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/t03lml/want_to_support_ukraine_heres_a_list_of_charities/) or [this fundraising account by the Ukrainian national bank](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/wiki/ukrainewar#wiki_donations).

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**Fleeing Ukraine**
We have set up a wiki page with the available information about the border situation for Ukraine [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/wiki/ukrainewar). There’s also information at [Visit Ukraine.Today](https://visitukraine.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.”

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### Other links of interest

– [Live Map of Ukraine site](https://liveuamap.com/) and [Institute of War](https://understandingwar.org/) have maps that are considered reliable by mainstream media.

– [Wikipedia: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine)

– [#UkraineFacts: an international coalition of journalists fact-checking media surrounding the war in Ukraine](https://ukrainefacts.org/)
– DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH “War of Fakes”. [Deutsche Welle (DW) has reported it as being a source of fake news](https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-how-a-fact-checking-website-is-spreading-russian-propaganda/a-61062940), and the Russian Defense Ministry has linked this site in their tweets before.

– [UNHCR refugee tracker focusing on Ukrainians](https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine)

– [DeepL extension for Google Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deepl-translator/kgljlkdpcelbbmdfilomhgjaaefofkfh) and [DeepL extension for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-deepl/). DeepL is a good alternative to Google Translate for Russian and Ukrainian texts.

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# Please obey the request of the Ukrainian government to [refrain from sharing info about Ukrainian troop movements](https://i.redd.it/5atggucaurj81.jpg)