[ditn]

During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.

[unsupp0rted]

Twitter Spaces... perhaps for people in the West with intellectual curiosity about the play by play.

For people on the ground it was Telegram groups and channels. "TG" is huge in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

[rjzzleep]

It's really odd that people on HN see the world as west vs. Slavic countries.

The world is MUCH bigger than that, and telegram has much wider spread than that. But yes, twitter spaces is tiny fringe space even in the "west"(a term that always bothered me given how the world is round, and how Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are somehow part of "the West").