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Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way.----------LINKS: @Annaf...

2026-05-14 | UPDATES #202 | Putin used the ceasefire to stockpile. He used the days after his tinpot dictator parade to probe Ukrainian airspace with decoy drones, and last night he struck. We said he would and explained why he would. Putin is a rational psychopath who can’t bear to make concessions, or be perceived as in the debt of others, allies and partners, but especially not enemies. He know...

2026-05-13 | UPDATES #201 | Russian assets assemble – how four synchronised attacks on Zelenskyy landed in the same 72 hours — and why the coordination is the story. The Mendel interview, the Yermak charges, the Gabbard biolabs allegation revival, and Putin’s first-ever use of the phrase 'Mr Zelensky' — all in the same week. What is going on? We try to find patterns in the apparent chaos....

Christine Khariv is Business Development Manager at DLF attorneys-at-law Ukraine. Christine writes eloquently and passionately about Ukraine on LinkedIn and Twitter, exposing Russian falsehoods, and advocating for Ukraine’s cause.https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-khariv-qris/----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://w...

Silicon Bites Ep337 | 2026-05-12 | Assets or idiots? Delusional or disingenuous. Politics as usual, or treacherous behaviour? Do they work for the Kremlin or for themselves? Iuliia Mendel's 96 Minutes with Tucker Carlson and the question that decides what they are, and whose interests they work for. 11–12 May 2026 — The Day After Mendel's Interview Drops — and the Day Russia's Propagan...

Artur Dron is a 25-year-old Ukrainian poet, essayist, and combat veteran. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. Graduated from the Department of Journalism at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Before the full-scale invasion, worked as event manager at The Old Lion Publishing House in Lviv — the publisher that would later issue Hemingway Knows Nothing. Saw combat across Donetsk,...

2026-05-12 | UPDATES #200 | How Andriy Yermak fell from shadow president to suspect — and why 'down' is not the same as 'out'. 11–12 May 2026 — the day Nabu and Sapo formally charged the most powerful man in Ukraine after Volodymyr Zelensky. Is this a sign of troubling issues, or of a vibrant democracy dealing with corruption and nepotism. Why this arrest is strong proof against th...

Silicon Bites Ep336 | 2026-05-11 | The UK is falling – how a two-party system built over a century is cracking apart in real time — and why the architect of the wreckage is now the frontrunner to run it. You’re not worried yet? You should be. An alleged grifter and fraud is about to take the UK to a dark place, and the implications for Ukraine and European security are huge. This grifter is Nigel...

Yuri Rashkin Livestream. ----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga’s Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Brigade with Vampire Drones.https://dzygaspaw.com/silicon-curtain-for-kupiansk-vampiresThese heavy bombers are designed to destroy manpower and equipment, as well...

2026-05-11 | UPDATES #199 | While Zelenskyy was signing satirical decrees, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova were performing the other half of the regime's choreography: the threat. The Russian Foreign Ministry, captured by Pravda EN, RFE/RL, the Washington Times, and TASS, issued what RFE/RL called "a belligerent warning to Kyiv, and dipl...

Corcoran writes from the perspective of a long-term Moscow correspondent, who spent 14 years in Moscow and who became personally entangled in the story he was covering. He is an award-winning journalist and Russia analyst based in Ireland, formerly a senior correspondent for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones, with work appearing in outlets including The Sunday Times, The Washington Post, Business Insid...

2026-05-10 | UPDATES #198 | Nightmares of the ‘bunker Tsar’. The European intelligence dossier on Putin’s drone paranoia — and why it probably has a kernel of truth. What we are about to discuss is the most explosive single document published about the inner state of the Russian regime in 2026 — and like all explosive documents, it deserves to be handled with care. Now the sceptical reading. Becau...

Silicon Bites Ep335 | 2026-05-10 | Z-patriots are losing their minds, telling Russia that 1917 is coming again. But history does not repeat in such convenient ways – but it may well rhyme. Moscow and St Petersburg cut off again from mobile internet, forty regions blacked out, and the pro-war cheer-leaders crack. Now to the part of the story that may cause troubled dreams in the Kremin. Because the...

Silicon Bites Ep334 | 2026-05-09 | Zelenskyy granted Putin permission to hold his own dictator parade on Red Square — and for added irony supplied them with the military coordinates in a special presidential decree. This is next level Ukrainian trolling, but it also highlights how weak and pathetic Putin has become. In this episode, Trump's claimed three-day truce, the 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner...

Georgijs Ivanovs started the Ukraine Matters channel in 2007, and it has garners 11.5 m views. He started the channel to explain the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine in simple terms. Like myself, he is not Ukrainian, nor is he a military expert. But he has been to Ukraine many times and seen it almost fully (except for Odesa region). He has a lot of good friends in Ukraine, and in fact his...

2026-05-09 | UPDATES #197 | THE UNIT-COST ATTACK ON THE WESTERN DEFENCE BUSINESS MODELNow to why Papperger's hostility, beyond personal arrogance, has a structural source. Ukraine's drone revolution is not just changing how wars are fought. It is changing the unit economics of war itself — and those unit economics are an existential threat to the legacy defence-prime business model. The nu...

Silicon Bites Ep333 | 2026-05-07 | Z-patriots are losing their minds, telling Russia that 1917 is coming again. But history does not repeat in such convenient ways – but it may well rhyme. Moscow and St Petersburg cut off again from mobile internet, forty regions blacked out, and the pro-war cheerleaders crack. It is the morning of 5 May 2026. A woman in Moscow wakes up, picks up her phone, and st...

2026-05-07 | UPDATES #196 | The fall of an empire – the humbling of the Russian bear and elimination of its vast stock of Soviet weapons, and Soviet-minded population of Putin’s Russian Federation. A victory made by housewives: how a German CEO insulted the drone revolution he cannot compete with. Today’s episode is a breakdown of why Ukraine’s mil-tech threatens every defence prime in NATO and th...

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and R...

Jason Jay Smart is a political adviser who has lived and worked in Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Latin America. Due to his work with the democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin, Smart was made persona non grata for life by Russia in 2010. Jason is a Special Correspondent at the Kyiv Post. It’s the state of US support for Ukraine that we will discuss today.----------LINKS:ht...

Silicon Bites Ep332 | 2026-05-05 | Nightmares of the ‘bunker Tsar’. The European intelligence dossier on Putin’s drone paranoia — and why it probably has a kernel of truth. What we are about to discuss is the most explosive single document published about the inner state of the Russian regime in 2026 — and like all explosive documents, it deserves to be handled with care. On Sunday 4 May, the Russ...

2026-05-05 | UPDATES #195 | This is the surreal physical reality of Moscow this week. The Kyiv Post and AFP, reporting on 5 May, documented what is happening on the streets of the Russian capital. Mobile internet access began dropping sharply after 7am. Apps, websites, payment systems all failing to load. Even the so-called white-list services — the ones the Kremlin had publicly committed to keepi...

2026-05-05 | UPDATES #194 | Moscow goes dark, Putin begs for calm and for ‘permission’ to run his tin pot victory day parade. Zelenskyy dictates the terms, in one of the greatest political inflections of history. Ukraine now calls the shots about what happens and does not happen in the swamp empire. Putin does not control, the agenda in Moscow, and Red Square, Ukraine does. Putin's panic hits...

SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga’s Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Br...

2026-05-04 | UPDATES #192 | Front line Leningrad. 60 drones over Putin’s historic imperial capital and the governor's confession. Pulkovo closes again and Primorsk burns. The night of 2 to 3 May 2026. The Russian Federation's window to the Baltic. The province that contains Saint Petersburg — Russia's second city, Vladimir Putin's hometown, the imperial capital where Romanovs once...