no idea why the Institute for the Study of War hasn't been mentioned yet

they issue regular reports on the world's hot spots, and in the case of the ukraine war, nightly summaries of all events during the previous 24hrs

https://www.understandingwar.org/

We have !ukraine@sopuli.xyz for example.

This website was posted earlier, it's been interesting :

https://meduza.io/en/live/2023/06/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-s-coup

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

Here is a good one
NBC Live Updates

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

Metafilter continues to have nuanced analysis. https://www.metafilter.com/199733/Armed-Mutiny-in-Russia

Hopefully this link works, first time linking to another instance:
https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/81041

There is a mega thread over on kbin.social:

https://kbin.social/m/news/t/89812

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

I am following multiple youtube channels that provide regular updates:

• Denys Davydov
• Reporting from Ukraine
• The Russian Dude
• Suchomimus
• Beau of the Fifth Column
• Perun

Another good option is https://www.iswresearch.org they do daily event summaries, and have an RSS feed you can subscribe to

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

@nexta_tv on Mastodon

I've found Mastodon helpful for this

Telegram

That is where all the first hand sources are.

https://kbin.social/m/news/t/89812

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

Mastodon as a twitter alternative. if you have an accout it streams new toots, without login you have to refresh

https://mastodon.world/tags/russia

!ukraine@sopuli.xyz

But you can also get Reddit updates on Lemmy to bridge the gap. Check out:

!ukraine@lemmit.online and !ukrainianconflict@lemmit.online

IMO Telegram is the only app to get information from both sides

Telegram groups:

Eurasia & Multipolarity

Donbass Devushka

Nabrezhnye