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
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
Another good link for them is https://www.iswresearch.org/
We have [email protected] for example.
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
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
Right here my friend! Plenty of megathreads and updates on kbin
personally i’m using mastodon and browsing the #russia hashtag
Isn’t there a community dedicated to Ukraine? I thought there was
There is
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.
Hopefully this link works, first time linking to another instance:
https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/81041Try this: /c/[email protected]
https://liveuamap.com gives a nice overview, but lacks the social component
Here is a good one
NBC Live UpdatesI’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
I’ve found Mastodon helpful for this
Metafilter continues to have nuanced analysis. https://www.metafilter.com/199733/Armed-Mutiny-in-Russia
Another good option is https://www.iswresearch.org they do daily event summaries, and have an RSS feed you can subscribe to
