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With the Russo-Ukrainian War progressing into its third year, it's inevitably happened that there's been dropoff in English-language news coverage of it. Any sort of news coverage eventually exhausts part of its viewership, so news companies may wish to pivot away from coverage to something more fresh and engaging to their audiences.

There are, however, significant numbers of independent folks/small groups that compile and deliver the news from a wide variety of styles, approaches, and areas and degrees of expertise. If you have an interest in just staying abreast of the events, or understanding a particular event at a deeper level, these are some people you can check:

https://youtube.com/@DenysDavydov

Denys is a Ukrainian former airline pilot, living in Ukraine. He has a very generalist approach, delivering everything from frontline news to international political news relevant to Ukraine. He has a dry sense of humor, and his videos move along at a good clip.

https://youtube.com/@militaryandhistory

Torsten is a German military veteran and historian. He mainly focuses on events at the tactical level, movements in the front line and news concerning the soldiers, weapons and equipment in the fight. He delivers news in a colder, more impartial manner, not very propagandistic, despite vocally supporting Ukraine.

https://youtube.com/@anderspuck

Anders Puck Nielson is a Denmark-based military analyst. He publishes less frequently, and in a shorter format. Prefers to focus on the bigger-picture strategic view of the war. Drier and serious.

https://youtube.com/@EnforcerOfficial

The Enforcer covers pretty much everything pertaining to the war. It's a small team of people, delivering more colorful accounts, but with a respectable amount of due diligence in their reporting. Everything from hours-long streams to short-form clips on particular highlights, they are among the most prolific and dedicated.

https://youtube.com/@arturrehi

Artur is a former Estonian conscript, and tackles the news from a more light-hearted, former infantryman's perspective. Frequently travels and meets the soldiers themselves, does a fair amount on-the-ground style reporting. Recently got his Patreon deleted, he's just a good guy fighting for the safety of both Ukraine and his own country.

https://youtube.com/@VladVexlerChat

Vlad is a philosopher and former citizen of the USSR. Does extremely nuanced takes on the biggest-picture views of Russian thought and goals, in addition to covering global news at the political and ideological levels. This is his second channel, which features the bulk of his content.

https://youtube.com/@JakeBroe

Jake is a former US Air Force missileer, the guys responsible for our nukes, among other things. With a history background, he tends to cover the news at the political and strategic levels. One of the very best at explaining the American political system and how it pertains to support for Ukraine.

https://youtube.com/@Professor-Gerdes

Daren is a US professor, specializing in leadership structures. Does mostly short-form content where he breaks down individual events and applies that to the bigger picture of war progress. Also handles international politics.

https://youtube.com/@UkraineMatters

Georgij is a Dane that cares an awful lot about Ukraine. Produces a wide range of content, mainly covering front line movements and specific battlefield events, but also covers pretty much everything else, frequently from a more personal, human perspective.

https://youtube.com/@NatashasAdventures

Natasha is a Russian that somewhat recently fled Russia. She's more anti-Putin than anything else, and makes shorter-form content about what it's actually like to be a young Russian, and how a politically-active young Russian woman might think. Occasionally debunks Russian propaganda.

https://youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain

Jonathan is a British political activist and journalist. He conducts longform interviews of a very wide ranging variety of people, collecting all manner of different sorts of perspectives on the war. Has a general focus towards combating misinformation, but it really depends on his interview subject for the day.

https://youtube.com/@BattlesAndBeersWarStories

Last but not least, B&B collects accounts of individual Ukrainian soldiers, as well as soldiers fighting in other global conflicts, and delivers them in a straight-forward manner. Compiling primary sources for future posterity, he ensures the individual soldiers' stories will not be allowed to die with them.

As you can see, I wasn't kidding when I spoke of there being a lot, and coming from a very wide variety of perspectives. I'm neglecting to mention most of them, so please feel free to share any more in a reply. These are just some of the ones I personally check from time to time, and I tried to include people from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds that might be more interesting to any particular western lay-person.

Cross-posting this from the Science Communication community over on mander.

It's not directly politics, of course, but anyone political will probably immediately recognize its value, and even necessity.

Love how concisely he put everything down though, this is a quick read.

Assuming someone is at a somewhat beginner level and wants to learn more than simply a whole bunch of recipes.

Also feel free to shill for a youtuber or website.

Been running this as my background listening for a couple weeks now, and have to admit, I am extremely impressed.

The day-by-day format really puts different parts of the war into perspective, and while he moves too quickly to go into much detail about anything specific, it ends up functioning as an entirely different form of overview from what you get in more traditional studies.

Super cool project overall.

The first of the three inscriptions said to be carved into the Temple of Apollo, where the Oracle of Delphi resided: Know Thyself.

While focusing heavily on the Norwegian Lemming, there's a lot of general Scandinavian taiga nature docu stuff here. Reindeer, moose, artic fox, etc.

It's a good one. But at any rate, we should clearly have an understanding of our namesake, I think.

I didn't know it at the time, but hours and hours of exposure to this theme during car rides would implant within me an innate appreciation for what video game music specifically tries to do, and the limitations it tries to do it within.

Which persists to this day.

Either you played the game or you haven't. It's the only one that has ever made me regularly let the opening cutscene play out when I fired the game up to play.

Not at first, but as the story dug its hooks into me, I'd let this song play out more and more often. The accompanying animated music video isn't bad either.

n/t

So, finally decided to pick the game up recently, and really enjoying it. But, I do have to admit, I'm a little rusty with shooters in general, and the scout role is pretty chaotic sometimes.

Anyone have advice/tips/reliable guides they prefer for the scout class specifically?

What kinds of things do scouts do, especially newbie ones, that kinda bug you? What are the things a really good scout does that marks them as a really good scout?

So far, I find myself focusing kinda heavily on combat just because it's an obvious thing I can do, and zipping behind a bug to blast it in the ass with a shotgun is really fun. I assume that's not really my #1 job though. I keep our cave lit up pretty reliably, but should I be doing more ... actual scouting I assume?

I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren't hating on the old place so much.

Recently I'm seeing this huuuuuuuge surge of just pure fucking hatred leveled at the site itself. Anyone else notice this or is it just me?

I mean, I was there because I thought it was alright. I hated spez for fucking it up and completely screwing his communities over. But I never hated reddit itself, and I still don't. Otherwise I would've left a lot sooner.

Do you personally hate reddit? If so, why?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1477104

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