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
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Pro-Ukraine sources are very biased. Not the best place for getting accurate information.
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?
This website was posted earlier, it's been interesting :
https://meduza.io/en/live/2023/06/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-s-coup
Right here my friend! Plenty of megathreads and updates on kbin
BBC has a pretty fast moving live feed here:
I like their coverage. If it's something I don't feel totally in the loop in they typically include some background
A background from the point of view of the west.. :)
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
personally i'm using mastodon and browsing the #russia hashtag
I am following multiple youtube channels that provide regular updates:
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.
Isn't there a community dedicated to Ukraine? I thought there was
There is
I'm also finding myself out of the loop. Civil war? A coup? What?
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.
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.
Sounds like fun
Hopefully this link works, first time linking to another instance:
https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/81041
I've found Mastodon helpful for this
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
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
Another good option is https://www.iswresearch.org they do daily event summaries, and have an RSS feed you can subscribe to
Metafilter continues to have nuanced analysis. https://www.metafilter.com/199733/Armed-Mutiny-in-Russia
You can read articles on a Google/search engine.
Mastodon has a bunch of news aggregators on Ukraine.
Mastodon as a twitter alternative. if you have an accout it streams new toots, without login you have to refresh
Telegram
That is where all the first hand sources are.
YouTube has a lot of good channels that cover daily military activity in Ukraine.
Google News has a page set up: https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2lIaXJPSkNCR1J0V1YzWjRMckhTZ0FQAQ?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen
https://upstract.com/ <- ALL the feeds in one place.
https://liveuamap.com/ <- Conflict specific events map.
The news.
But you can also get Reddit updates on Lemmy to bridge the gap. Check out:
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.
IMO Telegram is the only app to get information from both sides
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.
Telegram groups:
Eurasia & Multipolarity
Donbass Devushka
Nabrezhnye
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