Here is Ukrainian media:

Громадське

Українська правда

Бабель

Букви

Here's some good accounts on Twitter:

Генеральний штаб ЗСУ

Повернись Живим

Melaniya Podolyak

Disarmonia

Bonus:

Terrell Jermaine Starr

"People who read a paper paper have to flip through a lot of international news before they get to what they think they're interested in. They at least glance at the headlines, and maybe they read a few stories they hadn't expected to. More and more, online news sources will give them only what they wanted in advance. [...] Custom filters are going to make Americans even more ignorant than they already are, which is plenty."

Stolen from FB in 2022:

Edward Clark 28 January at 02:50 ·

There’s actually only one of me. :)

As to how- Well I suppose I’ve been reading about it for a very very long time. 

I like history and I try to keep up with the news (all of it not just the one country) and I have a decent memory. I followed the Nigerian election and the last Indian one and the fiasco in Kenya. I’ve got over a hundred books in my line of sight right now (and that’s not even the main bookcases) over half of them are history. 

That knowledge....adds up. Don’t get me wrong I do have a couple of books specifically on torture and some on specific scientific studies that are relevant to the area but most of this came from the news and history books. 

If the question is also why I’ve spent so long reading about all this stuff, why I need to know what’s going on in Kashmir or Sri Lanka or Syria-

I feel like the short answer is ‘I grew up in Saudi Arabia’.

 We were robbed once and I remember my mother saying (ratherinstinctively) to my father that we should call the police. ‘They’d just arrestthe driver.’ He said and I knew that was true. And after a couple of hours maybe days in jail he’d have ‘confessed’.

 I’ve been living in the UK for 18 years. I still haven’tquite gotten over the idea that the police exist to make people disappear.

 I’ve never been tortured. I’ve never seen anyone torturedand as far as I know no one I know has been tortured. But I knew growing upthat it was something that couldhappen. To me and the people around me. And there was really nothing anyonecould do about it.

 I won’t say it’s been a conscious effort to understandtorture but over the years I have learnt a lot. It is, in a very real way, partof my family history. My great-grandparents were on opposite sides during thedays of the British Empire. I’ve wondered occasionally whether they shot at ortortured each other.

 I’ve read an awful lot on the subject; from newspaperarticles to books to academic studies. Torture shows up in everything. It’s aregular feature in children’s movies. According to Amnesty International around 44% of people think they would be torturedif they were arrested.

 I guess I just think as writers, as creators, we should bedoing better by that 44%.