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.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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.
A couple billion dollars of weapons to Ukraine is one of the best things American taxmoney can buy. It's a small investment with a very profitable return. I don't get why Americans complain when it costs them virtually nothing compared to the benefits. We get to replace the EU's stockpiles and energy with American made products which generates jobs domestically (tankies and the QOP will ignore this and complain about expensive food and housing prices). We get to test our own weapons on our biggest enemy and destroy their military capabilities without triggering a nuclear war. And since Ukrainians are doing the fighting, we don't have to worry about paying them benefits and pensions or send our our countrymen to die. It's truly one of the most wholesome packages, all for a fraction of the cost of our annual military budget while raking in immense financial and security profits. The fact that anyone is complaining about this shows how deep Putin's propaganda reaches the US.
Unironically, because I made it up while taking a dump. After the Ukraine aid bill passed, I had to channel my inner liberal since posts like these popping up since the start of the war every time there was news of aid going to Ukraine
I assume it's a blending of "QAnon" and "GOP". I think it needs some focus grouping, though, because it doesn't really add much to the viral appeal of the copypasta. SMH.