Ukraine targeted key Russian military and industrial sites in occupied Crimea and Krasnodar Krai, striking the Saky and Kacha military airfields and the Tuapse oil refinery, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Feb. 26.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The one problem I have with these kinds of reports DURING the war, is that I never know how much is public propaganda, and how much is real. From both sides.

Just to give an example, if you read newspapers published in England during WWII, you would be lead to believe that British troops had developed a super power night vision by eating carrots.

No, I'm serious. They legitimately reported that.

What had actually happened was British intelligence had developed radar. They were able to now track nazi bombers before they even arrived to their bombing sites. So they'd reposition their anti-air defenses, and suddenly their hit rate at night went up massively.

Then, because the Germans didn't know what radar was, they told the newspapers "Well our boys have been eating carrots which is good for your eyesight, especially at night."

And the papers printed that. The nazis then established studies on the effects of carrots. And silent generation parents then taught their baby boomer children to eat carrots because it would help their eyesight. Completely missing the point of what the newspaper had printed, but even if they hadn't the whole thing was bogus anyways. Just war propaganda from a war that had ended 10 years earlier at that point.

And theres countless other examples of this. I just wanted to list my favorite one as an example of how war propaganda works in real time.

So when I see these reports, from either side, I never know how true they are. Russia in the early days was sending out reports that they had such an advantage that they were going to win within 2 weeks. Obviously that was untrue. The allies have claimed they're destroying russian tanks faster than russia can manufacture them, and that russia would run out of old stock tanks by 2024. That obviously didn't happen either.

Then this past summer, Ukraine claimed to have invaded Russia, and taken land of theirs. I held out, unclear if it was true. Now, months later, that appears to actually have been true.

So I'm not saying all news about the war is propaganda. I'm just saying I never know which news is.

Does anyone know a reliable source of news that filters out propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The news I post is as good as can be expected. AP, Reuters, Kyiv Independent are reputable news agencies. You need to look more at the source than the publisher. "Government officials says..." articles are factually 'true'. The official said that. Lies? Corroborating evidence? Critical thinking is your job as much as it is the reporter's.

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