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.
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.
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