Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Yesterday's discussion post.
youtube is recommending lib-ass videos from a channel called 1420 which asks people in moscow a bunch of leading questions like "do you think russians will have to pay for the reconstruction of ukraine?" which are propagandistic but also it seems like a good channel to learn russian from if you can handle all the lib shit.
it seems like comments are on but only the creator can read them? the swag store only sells items with the logo "1420". kind of a hard channel to wrap my head around, but if i had to guess, it's anti-russian videos made in moscow. anyone else seen this channel?
"When did you stop storing intermediate range ballistic missiles with nuclear capability on the borders of your wife?"
OwO
Probably spook shit
Reading random "1420" sounds like its referencing some historical Russian shit that I'm too lazy to research right now, maybe I'm wrong though.
I looked him up some more, and he said 1420 is just a school he attended. (?)
He's just an average 21 yr old asking leading questions of his fellow moscovites for consumption by westerners. the channel existed before the invasion and every video title looks like it's set up to make russians look bad. edit: the channel's purpose is to bring russian voices of dissent to the world
random article about him https://www.yahoo.com/video/youtuber-shows-russians-chilling-reactions-174313562.html
Ah so he’s just a comprador western worshipping lib. Very sus when protests in a foreign nation are all aimed at English speaking westerners.
Please help us, please sanction us, please invade us. I will be your loyal house slave.