Ukrainian optimism fades at start of another winter of war

Rumours of tensions at the top, exhaustion after two years of fighting and frustration with allies dampen the mood in Kyiv

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1 - Follow general etiquette and common sense in both posts and comments.

2. - Posting Guidelines regarding posts

2.1 - Types of submissions
- - Submissions must be links to news articles
- - The source must either be the original website or an archive of the original.
- - Submissions may not be older than 14 days.
- - The submission’s title may not be editorialized (express opinions rather than report the news). If the country/countries involved are not apparent, put their names in the title in brackets
2.2 - Submissions should pertain to politics, environmental, or major events
- Interactions, relations, or developments between governments, nation-states, top-level subdivisions, or autonomous regions.
- Major non-state actors such as large multi-national corporations, trans-national unions/institutions, regional warlords, terrorist organizations, major independence movements, or international criminal organizations
- Significant internal political developments directly affect their region or the wider world.
- Major aspects of the climate, environment, or health.
- _Major disasters, both natural and man-made, affecting large groups of people or wide areas. _
2.3 - US/China/India content restriction
- The number of paragraphs with more than a passing reference to the USA, China or India in any capacity should not exceed more than 50% of the article. Includes special administrative regions such as Hong Kong, Guam, Macau, and Puerto Rico.
- Major non-state actors are exempt from the 50% rule
- If it is unclear due to large or inconsistently sized paragraphs, then the same criteria should be applied to the number of sentences instead.
2.4 - Content quality
- Submissions must be of good quality.
- - The following content is strictly prohibited:
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- - - Personal blog posts
- - - Satire
- - - Debunked/fabricated content
- The quality of content will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and is at the moderators' discretion.
2.5 - Non-English articles
- Non-English articles may be posted, but only if accompanied by a comment containing the article’s English translation.
- Translation must be conducted by using either DeepL or Google Translate.
- Do not use your own translation unless it is being used to rectify errors in the software’s translation.
- - Localisation corrections (such as a figure of speech) should be provided in square brackets beside the original.

3. Spamming and agendaposting applies to both comments and posts:

3.1 - Spamming
- A user may only submit five posts per 24 hours. Any submissions that exceed this 5-post limit will automatically be removed.
- Users may not engage in disruptive behavior or no-value-added spamming, including brigading.
3.2 - Agendaposting
- Agendaposting is the process of only, or mostly submitting posts that conform to a certain agenda or political stance. This is strictly prohibited.
- If more than 67% of recent posts are considered to be exclusively pushing the same agenda, then action will be taken.
- Users are prohibited from accusing other users of agendaposting in the comments. Complaints on particular suspected agendaposters are only allowed via the report system or via modmailing with substantial evidence to demonstrate a said user is an agendaposter.
- Agendaposting is reviewed on a case-by-case basis at the moderators' discretion.

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- Personal attacks
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- Discrimination, including Age, disability, ethnicity, gender, origin, religion, or sexual orientation
- Attacks will be reviewed case-by-case basis at the moderators' discretion.
- Retaliation, in the same manner, is also forbidden - perpetrators should instead be reported.
- Whataboutism and similar off-topic deviation are prohibited in top-level comments and replies and as the primary focus of a comment to keep discussions on the topic with respect to the post's contents. Whataboutism will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis at the moderators' discretion.
- Linking to Comments and Posts unrelated to the current topic and to users not involved in the current conversation (excluding mods or exceptionally informative comments shared in good faith) is not allowed. Any unrelated link will be removed, and any user suspected of sharing links in an attempt to harass or encourage harassment will be permanently banned from participation.

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