This is a good action and if I never really watched RT or Sputnik before, now I do, just because it's banned.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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.
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.
Article from 2018 on the US switch: https://thegrayzone.com/2018/04/07/the-us-is-arming-and-assi...