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.
The US government has announced that it will not renew license 44, which allowed Venezuela to sell oil to the market, easing the sanctions imposed by the US.
As a result, the sanctions are back in full force. The United States considers that the country has violated the Barbados agreements, which deal with democratic elections in Venezuela, by preventing opposition candidates from registering as candidates.
they're pushing it amongst themselves (e.g. Russia-China trade is mostly dedollarized I think) but not to the wider world, which I'm unhappy about but I can't exactly blame them for it given how enormously complicated doing something like "getting the dollars out of the world trade of like 150 non-Western countries inside a global system traditionally managed by western institutions while also governing your own country which is under sanctions pressure, climate pressure, military pressure, and dozens of other pressures" truly will be. it's a good first step and hopefully they learn lessons from their own experiences to help other countries.
wresting control of the Middle East is also a critical part of the dedollarization drive, so all these crises and wars are interconnected
The gall of these vampires to play all high and mighty about democracy in other people's countries when normal Americans have absolutely zero influence on government policy