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/)
– [Financial Times “War in Ukraine” section](https://www.ft.com/war-in-ukraine)
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:
– 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.
– 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 LV (55)**](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/14oijq5/war_in_ukraine_megathread_lv_55/)
**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)
by ModeratorsOfEurope