Note that I found the English-speaking RT to be surprisingly neutral on the topic of the war, including the phrases used. Yes, they call it a „special military operation“ and not a war, but the articles could have been from the BBC or the DW. Their op-eds were 4chan tier pro-Putin rants though.
However, Russian-language Russian state media such as Russia24 (vesti.ru) or similar (which I can only consume through Google translate but I believe Google to be fairly good here) are completely pure pro-Putin rants, not just the op-eds. They're cherrypicking topics, being very one-sided and over-all give the feeling of living in a completely different universe.
I usually check news on guardian, RT, aljazeera and timesofindia to get better overview of the world. Each of them are biased in some respects and neutral to others. Obviously most of them are heavily biased towards their own country.
However I have never seen as much propaganda, hyper-nationalism and just vague (or outright false) reporting from western media as the current Russia-Ukraine war.
Till 2016, US congress had banned from supplying weapons to Ukraine and now suddenly it switched sides.
Note that I found the English-speaking RT to be surprisingly neutral on the topic of the war, including the phrases used. Yes, they call it a „special military operation“ and not a war, but the articles could have been from the BBC or the DW. Their op-eds were 4chan tier pro-Putin rants though.
However, Russian-language Russian state media such as Russia24 (vesti.ru) or similar (which I can only consume through Google translate but I believe Google to be fairly good here) are completely pure pro-Putin rants, not just the op-eds. They're cherrypicking topics, being very one-sided and over-all give the feeling of living in a completely different universe.
Curious to see somebody else‘s opinion.