Best way the follow the Ukraine - Russia War without Reddit ?

bathory@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 163 points –

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 !

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Right here my friend! Plenty of megathreads and updates on kbin

personally i'm using mastodon and browsing the #russia hashtag

BBC has a pretty fast moving live feed here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-66006142

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

I'm also finding myself out of the loop. Civil war? A coup? What?

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.

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.

Isn't there a community dedicated to Ukraine? I thought there was

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

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

I have subscribed to the news and worldnews magazines in kbin.social, lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml and Beehaw, along with the Ukraine one in sopuli.xyz. I am getting all the latest updates right here in my feed. I also follow the #Russia hashtag on Mastodon, and has also added it to my favourite hashtags tab on Tusky (Mastodon app). I am getting faster updates than what I used to get on Twitter and Reddit.