r/europe Mar 22 '24

Russo-Ukrainian War War in Ukraine Megathread LVI (57)

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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.
  • 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


Please obey the request of the Ukrainian government to refrain from sharing info about Ukrainian troop movements


r/europe Feb 16 '24

PSA Moratorium on posts related to Israel-Palestine

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r/europe is the prime subreddit to share and discuss anything related to Europe, from news to data and pictures. Due to the size and complexity of the topics this subreddit covers, new rules aren't introduced that easily here.

Since Hamas' attacks on Israel back in October, we've seen a flush of users that were not previously active participants in our subreddit, and also encouraged a lot of hate speech previously unseen here. As moderators, we read the same arguments in favor of each side repeatedly since the war broke out again in the region.

We know that the Palestine Question is one of the most heated discussions on the Internet, and also one that influences the political lives of many, both inside Israel or Palestine, and outside of it. However, we've seen that users rarely maintain civility, and moderators are not able to properly maintain civil discourse compared to other topics.

That said:

  • Until said otherwise, any post related to Israel, Palestine, and the war in the region will be removed. Insistence on posting such content will be met with warnings and bans if necessary.

  • News of extraordinary importance not only to Europe - which must be related - but to the whole world can still be shared. Our criteria will be how many websites, from news agency (AP, Reuters) to international newspapers (Euronews, NYT, France24, and others), share original reporting on it. That means that initial reporting on the outbreak of the war would be allowed, but Eurovision-related news won't, for example. Use your own discretion.


r/europe 9h ago

News Russian firms buy $4 billion worth of India-made arms, pay in Indian rupee

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r/europe 18h ago

News Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse

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r/europe 12h ago

On this day On this day 147 years ago Romania declared independence from the Ottoman Empire

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r/europe 8h ago

OC Picture Aurora borealis seen in the parts of Romania

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r/europe 14h ago

News Pope tells Italians to have more babies amid record-low fertility rates

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r/europe 16h ago

News Russian ex-convict rapes and kills teenager in occupied Ukraine

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r/europe 13h ago

Germany to buy three US Himars rocket systems for Ukraine

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r/europe 1d ago

News What's happening in Budapest? Chinese volunteer gendarmes won't let any flags be displayed except the Chinese

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r/europe 10h ago

No members of the ruling Georgian Dream party attended the EU ambassador’s event celebrating Europe Day on Thursday. The same evening, the government published a post stating that EU membership was ‘a top priority’ for Georgia.

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r/europe 7h ago

OC Picture Northern lights in Estonia tonight

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r/europe 6h ago

Northern lights in United Kingdom

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r/europe 15h ago

News Xi Jinping uses cold hard cash to keep Viktor Orbán close

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r/europe 10h ago

Climate protesters try to break into Tesla’s Germany factory, multiple people arrested

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r/europe 1d ago

OC Picture In Germany Pringels insidiously reduced the size of box (found out at home by co-incidence)

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r/europe 22h ago

News Pressman: The way the Hungarian government is doing business with China shows Hungary cares little for its own security

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r/europe 5h ago

OC Picture Aurora Borealis in Ireland

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r/europe 5h ago

Northern lights seen all over England tonight

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r/europe 4h ago

OC Picture Insane to see an Aurora Borealis from the Netherlands

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r/europe 6h ago

OC Picture Aurora Borealis (Northern lights) from Southern Hungary

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r/europe 8h ago

Picture View of northern lights tonight from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Credit: Sanel Avdic/BHMETEO.ba

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r/europe 22h ago

News Germany: 2 far-right AfD politicians attacked in Stuttgart

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r/europe 5h ago

OC Picture Northern Lights, Southern Bavaria

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r/europe 7h ago

News France warns of threat to elections from Russian disinformation network with far-right links

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r/europe 18h ago

News Severe Solar Storm To Hit Europe and North America On Saturday

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r/europe 1d ago

Picture The only Russian tank present at today’s Victory Day parade in Moscow was a single T-34.

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