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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

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Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

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Almost every Western media outlet.
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.


  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    7 months ago

    President Lula da Silva, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Gustavo Petro. received a handwritten letter asking for help from Jorge Glas, the former vice-president of Ecuador who is in a maximum security prison in Guayaquil.

    "Help me," Jorge Glas asked Lula in a handwritten letter in an Ecuadorian prison

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received a handwritten letter asking for help from Jorge Glas, the former vice-president of Ecuador who is in a maximum security prison in Guayaquil.

    The letter was given to the Brazilian head of state in Bogotá last Wednesday (17) by former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, before the bilateral meeting between Brazilian President Lula and Colombian president Gustavo Petro at Casa de Nariño.

    Glas was arrested in an operation at the Mexican embassy in Quito by the Ecuadorian police on April 5th. Mexican diplomats were beaten up by the security forces.

    The Ecuadorian courts considered the arrest illegal and the episode, which violated diplomatic norms, was repudiated by the international community.

    "I'm Jorge Glas, former vice-president. I'm in prison again, help me," wrote the Ecuadorian politician, who was sentenced to prison for corruption but was sheltered by the Mexican embassy, which granted him diplomatic asylum.

    In the text, written in pencil, Glas also says that "only international pressure can help" and claims to be "in the worst prison in the country and on hunger strike".

    In an interview with CNN, Samper described the letter as "desperate" and said that he took advantage of Lula's visit to deliver it personally to the Brazilian president, with a transcription, since the handwriting is, according to him, "quite illegible".

    Samper says that Lula expressed "great concern" about the invasion of the embassy and was "dismayed" by Glas' situation. "He expressed concern to me about the life and the cry of a person who is in difficulty," he said.

    When asked about the choice of the Brazilian head of state as the recipient of the request, Samper said that "President Lula has undisputed recognition and leadership in the region, his opinions are very much heard and I think that's why they turned to him".

    The former Colombian president believes that, given the request, the Brazilian president will activate diplomatic mechanisms or make a statement in the coming days.

    At the extraordinary summit of the Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) last Tuesday (15) to discuss the invasion of the Mexican embassy, Lula defined the episode as "simply unacceptable" and stressed that it doesn't just affect Mexico, but all countries.

    "A formal apology from Ecuador is a first step in the right direction," emphasized Lula at the virtual summit.