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.
We have always been at war in the Ukraine. We will need $40 billion in lethal aid per month in perpetuity to stave off the ever present asiatic menace from the East
I mean, they said they wanted Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.
Like, putting aside the obvious flaw that Palestinians with a relatively minuscule military budget can't make missiles with nearly the same sophistication as Russian missiles, which are some of if not the best missiles in the world right now, and even Israel's missile defence can't intercept enough of these missiles (many of which are essentially high school physics problems, where they literally travel in a perfectly predictable arc) to avoid serious damage, so how on earth does the US plan to make a missile defence system that can defend against a concerted Russian attack - this would presumably require tens of billions of dollars to be piped into a country that is run by oligarchs and was just about functional before the war, let alone the godawful state it'll be in after the war. This isn't "the only democracy in the Middle East" populated by poor little meow meows, it's a deeply corrupt country largely ran by racist nationalists. Which, well, Israel kinda is too, but there's a real difference in conditions there.
I'm pretty sure the reason the West doesn't send primo military hardware to Ukraine is that it wouldn't be a good look to see, say, a missile defence system lauded as the best and most advanced in the world get popped by a hypersonic missile from the "incompetent, underequipped, corrupt" Russian forces. They certainly wouldn't want a grounded or downed F-35 captured. This would also do harm to the idea of Western military invincibility that it's enjoyed fighting enemies with no air support or advanced air defence systems. It doesn't even have to be guaranteed, but it is almost definitely a legitimate fear.
You can see the kind of PR nightmare the Turkish Baykatar drones have been, which has probably harmed at least some international arms sales.