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I always used to follow the war on Reddit but I am trying to stay away as much as possible. So how can I follow it without Reddit or Twitter? Does anybody have a good alternative? Thanks in advance.

Hope this is correct community to ask.

EDIT: Found on mastodon this profile which updates very frequently. Thanks to @vilian for suggestions for using #russia. But if anybody has something else please let me know ! For example a good telegram channel or something from de Fediverse

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no idea why the Institute for the Study of War hasn't been mentioned yet

they issue regular reports on the world's hot spots, and in the case of the ukraine war, nightly summaries of all events during the previous 24hrs

https://www.understandingwar.org/

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Another good link for them is https://www.iswresearch.org/

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LizardKing15 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro-Ukraine sources are very biased. Not the best place for getting accurate information.

[โ€“] Rincewindnz 1 points 10 months ago

Oh man, I think I'm pretty cynical and broken. My first reaction to the word "accurate" was to scoff. Factual? Least amount of bias? And sadly in this day and age, maybe least amount of emotionally reactive headings?

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This website was posted earlier, it's been interesting :

https://meduza.io/en/live/2023/06/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-s-coup

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Right here my friend! Plenty of megathreads and updates on kbin

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like their coverage. If it's something I don't feel totally in the loop in they typically include some background

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A background from the point of view of the west.. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. I mean I'm not aware of many Eastern sources (unless you consider Al Jazeera) so I definitely wouldn't be able to tell political biasses and I'm never going to trust Twitter or Reddit.

BBC also appears to be more neutral than other sources like Vice or Fox News

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

personally i'm using mastodon and browsing the #russia hashtag

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] EisFrei 2 points 1 year ago

Denys also has a Telegram channel which has a lot of uncensored content.

Be warned: There is a reason why some videos are spoiler protected.

https://t.me/pilotblog

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't there a community dedicated to Ukraine? I thought there was

[โ€“] nero 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm also finding myself out of the loop. Civil war? A coup? What?

[โ€“] JonnyJest 11 points 1 year ago

The Wagner mercenary group is rebelling against Putin and not really meeting much resistance as they travel towards Moscow, even picking up new soldiers along the way. As it started on Friday night, a lot of Russian soldiers were too drunk to be useful. Putin has fled Moscow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tl;dr Russia hired Wagner mercenaries, Wagner mercs felt threatened in some way (not clear at the moment, various theories), turned around and are now headed to Moscow and Moscow is shitting bricks. There is a lot of confusion and confabulation at the moment.

[โ€“] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like fun

[โ€“] cholesterol 4 points 1 year ago

https://liveuamap.com gives a nice overview, but lacks the social component

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hopefully this link works, first time linking to another instance:
https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/81041

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've found Mastodon helpful for this

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is a mega thread over on kbin.social:

https://kbin.social/m/news/t/89812

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The first three posts on the front page of kbin are about what's going on in Russia. Mastodon has been a great source for updates as well.

Edit: first 5 posts now

[โ€“] BobbyBandwidth 3 points 1 year ago

Check the deep state map once a day to get info on the front lines. This is the map that most of the YouTubers reference so you get the info without all the bs. They also have geotagged videos https://deepstatemap.live

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another good option is https://www.iswresearch.org they do daily event summaries, and have an RSS feed you can subscribe to

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] AskThinkingTim 2 points 1 year ago

You can read articles on a Google/search engine.

[โ€“] baascus 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] what_is_a_name 2 points 1 year ago

Mastodon has a bunch of news aggregators on Ukraine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mastodon as a twitter alternative. if you have an accout it streams new toots, without login you have to refresh

https://mastodon.world/tags/russia

[โ€“] ghariksforge 2 points 1 year ago

Telegram

That is where all the first hand sources are.

[โ€“] Wiggles 2 points 1 year ago

YouTube has a lot of good channels that cover daily military activity in Ukraine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[โ€“] notun 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected]

But you can also get Reddit updates on Lemmy to bridge the gap. Check out:

[email protected] and [email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

ukraine community over at sopuli is great if you sort by new, just trying to get more traction there in the form of people commenting. Posts for info, comments for fun.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

IMO Telegram is the only app to get information from both sides

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I highly recommend Steve's coverage at: https://www.youtube.com/@AgendaFreeTV or on Twitch with the same handle. He is very good with aggregation, but he is sleeping at the moment. He will be back on later today, no doubt. He really does try to be neutral and facts driven and he's pretty good.

You can also use an alternative front end to reddit (libreddit: https://libreddit.domain.glass/) or view live channels on streaming platforms, aside from what other posters mentioned.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Telegram groups:

Eurasia & Multipolarity

Donbass Devushka

Nabrezhnye

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