Although Western media may occasionally show some glimpses of the Russian viewpoint, either intentionally or sometimes apparently accidentally, you need to search about more to get that perspective too. For a long while I used the Opera browser which has a built in VPN that can be easily enabled with a couple of clicks in the settings to access the Russia Today website. I also switched to using a Yandex DNS server instead of the default one from my UK ISP which is otherwise automatically configured by DHCP. Recently I found that I no longer needed a VPN, only the Yandex DNS nameserver change is required. This works as well as my usual one for other online use. A DNS nameserver is kind of an address book for the internet that connects you to the right destination, the Western censorship has apparently simply deleted the entries to some websites on the DNS servers it controls. But whatever further blocking that was in place before has lifted now. Checking this out by switching back to my regular DNS, I then discovered that Southfront can now only be accessed via Yandex DNS while in the past it wasn't censored at all. Changing back again to Yandex and rebooting, I was still blocked from Southfront! Don't know how it works exactly, perhaps something gets cached in the router or online, but the next day it was back working again as normal. So if you do swap to Yandex DNS then probably it's best to give it a while to take effect fully and stick with it.
Russia Today website, the comments section can be informative too, if you have the time and patience to sift through the troll talk:
https://www.rt.com/
Russia Today TV channel, watch online live, I had been occasionally watching RT via satellite for years long before I had the internet and was very unhappy to see it taken off air:
http://www.freeintertv.com/view/id-1511
https://spbtv.online/channels/rt.html
Russia Today videos:
https://tv.gab.com/channel/rt
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd
Sputnik news - I first heard of this when it was banned along with RT, then the site didn't display well in Opera via the VPN, now there's no need for a VPN like RT:
https://sputniknews.com/
Avia-Pro, this has a lot of interesting content, occasionally some of it is social media rumours, but also there can be some good "scoops" here too:
https://avia-pro.net/
Southfront - beware if you are "thin skinned", many of the commenters seem to have a 4chan / reddit kind of outlook! Intriguing facts are mixed in with the general chat, and apparently there is double level censorship, first by Google recapture blocking some things and then the site owners later deleting comments. There's a trick to see the comments deleted by the site owners if you are lucky enough to stumble upon it. It doesn't ever seem to be mentioned so I guess either it's a deliberate secret or a bug in the website code, so don't point it out or it might get fixed! Wikipedia claims this is a Russian based site - perhaps, but there are some oddities, ie the Russian version of the site at the top right doesn't work and the German one is mostly outdated (there do seem to be a few articles in German appearing again recently though), so why would there only be an English version of a Russian website? And why the google recapture in the comments and frequent links to Youtube (generating revenue for a US company) rather than Russian video websites?
https://southfront.org/
If you like movies, here's a great subtitled Russian language film about 2014 and the start of the Ukrainian disputes, this is a fictionalised story but is mostly based on real well documented historical events, although they didn't all happen to the same group of characters:
https://southfront.org/scorching-sunlight-russian-war-drama-brings-light-on-events-in-donbass-in-2014/
Newsfront - a Crimea based website, some good info here, I found this reading about Southfront on Wikipedia:
https://en.news-front.info/
Tass - of course, the definitive voice of the Kremlin, and unlike Reuters, free for everyone to access! The side bar on the right has an "X" to close it, if you "lose" it by accident click the squiggle in the top right corner to bring it back (perhaps it's just me does things like that...):
https://tass.com/
Defense Politics Asia YouTube channel, this is a very reliable and balanced source as the info is taken online from reports by both sides:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGHiivhFq7M_1MLemh-cjg
Military Summary YouTube channel, can get a bit more carried away with pro-Russian enthusiasm than Defence Politics Asia sometimes, entering the territory of wishful thinking, but mostly very good:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnc496-PPmFZVKlYxUnToA
Ramzan Kadyrov's VK page, VK doesn't seem to translate well as a page so when I occasionally visit to see the latest from Chechnya I just scroll down and copy the interesting looking posts then drop them into an online translator. Unlike Meta sites it lets you look at the posts without signing in at present, just click the x on the pop up and continue. A lot of people including RK have Telegram pages too, as this requires a login and possibly a special app it's all too much effort for me and I have more than enough to read already, you can explore Telegram if you like! He's quite unlike his portrayal in the Western media as a "tyrant", rather a genial pleasant and popular fellow who helped bring peace and prosperity to his homeland:
https://vk.com/ramzan?ysclid=l8jndyuagq212828015
Online Russian radio stations, plenty more about to suit your taste if it differs, these consistently play Russian language music, unlike some others:
https://top-radio.ru/web/russkoe
https://top-radio.ru/web/record-russian-mix
Some Ukrainians in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRli1Ybah4
Novosibirsk, Siberia, Dronelapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zk_evi-W8
What kind of ignorant luddites would seek to destroy a civilisation that creates such amazing works and reaches up beyond the Earth into space even amidst the challenges of harsh winters? Critics point at the superyachts and so forth as an example of corruption, yet the fact that was not spent on the military proves peaceful intentions, if conquest is planned then first weapons are amassed. Being attacked by deranged Nazis will eventually gain a response from even the most goodnatured though. It could be an unconventional leap of logic to some, yet I would consider that if your country starts supporting extreme fascist ideology then it is in fact your patriotic duty to oppose this and point out the error, and those who go along with it are the ones who are truly betraying their nation and the legacy left by their ancestors.
Perhaps you may have come across such things yourself, but over the years I have read several reputedly factual accounts of undercover work by the police and intelligence services. A common theme is to infiltrate extremist / activist groups or organisations that may take part in criminal behaviour, examples I've seen include drug dealers and gangsters, the Hell's Angels and eco activists, including actively and enthusiastically participating in crimes and encouraging others to do so as well, thus incriminating them and passing that information on to be acted on later. So be cautious with any kind of apparently anti-establishment movement, you may not be dealing with who you expect, and possibly it's only a kind of trap and doesn't really exist at all! Even the agents themselves can encounter other agents and only much later discover that was someone from a different branch, so deep is the cover.
People talk about truth and perspective, imagine looking at a 3 dimensional object, say a group of people were standing around a statue and each took a picture. None of the pictures would be the same, yet each would be a true representation of what they see. Only by walking about the statue or perhaps comparing the different pictures taken by the others could you get a full view of what you were looking at. Many things are like this, if not literally then figuratively, and sometimes there are multiple truths, or perhaps none at all, and it requires a flexible multithreaded kind of thinking to even begin to understand them.
Russia Today website, the comments section can be informative too, if you have the time and patience to sift through the troll talk:
https://www.rt.com/
Russia Today TV channel, watch online live, I had been occasionally watching RT via satellite for years long before I had the internet and was very unhappy to see it taken off air:
http://www.freeintertv.com/view/id-1511
https://spbtv.online/channels/rt.html
Russia Today videos:
https://tv.gab.com/channel/rt
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd
Sputnik news - I first heard of this when it was banned along with RT, then the site didn't display well in Opera via the VPN, now there's no need for a VPN like RT:
https://sputniknews.com/
Avia-Pro, this has a lot of interesting content, occasionally some of it is social media rumours, but also there can be some good "scoops" here too:
https://avia-pro.net/
Southfront - beware if you are "thin skinned", many of the commenters seem to have a 4chan / reddit kind of outlook! Intriguing facts are mixed in with the general chat, and apparently there is double level censorship, first by Google recapture blocking some things and then the site owners later deleting comments. There's a trick to see the comments deleted by the site owners if you are lucky enough to stumble upon it. It doesn't ever seem to be mentioned so I guess either it's a deliberate secret or a bug in the website code, so don't point it out or it might get fixed! Wikipedia claims this is a Russian based site - perhaps, but there are some oddities, ie the Russian version of the site at the top right doesn't work and the German one is mostly outdated (there do seem to be a few articles in German appearing again recently though), so why would there only be an English version of a Russian website? And why the google recapture in the comments and frequent links to Youtube (generating revenue for a US company) rather than Russian video websites?
https://southfront.org/
If you like movies, here's a great subtitled Russian language film about 2014 and the start of the Ukrainian disputes, this is a fictionalised story but is mostly based on real well documented historical events, although they didn't all happen to the same group of characters:
https://southfront.org/scorching-sunlight-russian-war-drama-brings-light-on-events-in-donbass-in-2014/
Newsfront - a Crimea based website, some good info here, I found this reading about Southfront on Wikipedia:
https://en.news-front.info/
Tass - of course, the definitive voice of the Kremlin, and unlike Reuters, free for everyone to access! The side bar on the right has an "X" to close it, if you "lose" it by accident click the squiggle in the top right corner to bring it back (perhaps it's just me does things like that...):
https://tass.com/
Defense Politics Asia YouTube channel, this is a very reliable and balanced source as the info is taken online from reports by both sides:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGHiivhFq7M_1MLemh-cjg
Military Summary YouTube channel, can get a bit more carried away with pro-Russian enthusiasm than Defence Politics Asia sometimes, entering the territory of wishful thinking, but mostly very good:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnc496-PPmFZVKlYxUnToA
Ramzan Kadyrov's VK page, VK doesn't seem to translate well as a page so when I occasionally visit to see the latest from Chechnya I just scroll down and copy the interesting looking posts then drop them into an online translator. Unlike Meta sites it lets you look at the posts without signing in at present, just click the x on the pop up and continue. A lot of people including RK have Telegram pages too, as this requires a login and possibly a special app it's all too much effort for me and I have more than enough to read already, you can explore Telegram if you like! He's quite unlike his portrayal in the Western media as a "tyrant", rather a genial pleasant and popular fellow who helped bring peace and prosperity to his homeland:
https://vk.com/ramzan?ysclid=l8jndyuagq212828015
Online Russian radio stations, plenty more about to suit your taste if it differs, these consistently play Russian language music, unlike some others:
https://top-radio.ru/web/russkoe
https://top-radio.ru/web/record-russian-mix
Some Ukrainians in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRli1Ybah4
Novosibirsk, Siberia, Dronelapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zk_evi-W8
What kind of ignorant luddites would seek to destroy a civilisation that creates such amazing works and reaches up beyond the Earth into space even amidst the challenges of harsh winters? Critics point at the superyachts and so forth as an example of corruption, yet the fact that was not spent on the military proves peaceful intentions, if conquest is planned then first weapons are amassed. Being attacked by deranged Nazis will eventually gain a response from even the most goodnatured though. It could be an unconventional leap of logic to some, yet I would consider that if your country starts supporting extreme fascist ideology then it is in fact your patriotic duty to oppose this and point out the error, and those who go along with it are the ones who are truly betraying their nation and the legacy left by their ancestors.
Perhaps you may have come across such things yourself, but over the years I have read several reputedly factual accounts of undercover work by the police and intelligence services. A common theme is to infiltrate extremist / activist groups or organisations that may take part in criminal behaviour, examples I've seen include drug dealers and gangsters, the Hell's Angels and eco activists, including actively and enthusiastically participating in crimes and encouraging others to do so as well, thus incriminating them and passing that information on to be acted on later. So be cautious with any kind of apparently anti-establishment movement, you may not be dealing with who you expect, and possibly it's only a kind of trap and doesn't really exist at all! Even the agents themselves can encounter other agents and only much later discover that was someone from a different branch, so deep is the cover.
People talk about truth and perspective, imagine looking at a 3 dimensional object, say a group of people were standing around a statue and each took a picture. None of the pictures would be the same, yet each would be a true representation of what they see. Only by walking about the statue or perhaps comparing the different pictures taken by the others could you get a full view of what you were looking at. Many things are like this, if not literally then figuratively, and sometimes there are multiple truths, or perhaps none at all, and it requires a flexible multithreaded kind of thinking to even begin to understand them.