WASHINGTON, D.C. March 17 (DPI) – Major American media have done a responsible if modest job so far of reporting on the 3-week-old war in Ukraine, but the deepest and best coverage has come on Youtube.com, whose steady delivery of news videos from around the world has been strikingly comprehensive.

Global news providers such as France 24, Deutsche Welle, Sky News and even the British tabloid site Dailymail.com have gained new followings in the US, where readers are trying to follow the most consequential global event since WWII. All thanks in part to Youtube, whose platform has been serving up a huge supply of news reports on Russia’s fratricidal assault on Ukraine.

Even American news sources once mired in deeply partisan domestic battles – CNN and MSNBC come to mind – have re-directed and re-focused their coverage to the war. Many of their reports are showing up on Youtube feeds as well, gaining hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of hours.

A sampling of the reporting:

Marc Perelman of France 24 has interviewed key Putin opponents, such as London-based oligarch Mikael Khodorkovsky. Perelman is a measured, restrained and thoughtful interviewer. The 13-minute interview has garnered 3.5 million views since it was posted March 2.

Global news service Deutsche Welle also has posted ongoing news reports and interviews of military and diplomatic analysts, most with a calmer and slower-paced format than interviews by US news outlets. This interview with a top advisor to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel gained nearly 400,000 views on Youtube since it was posted two days ago.

One popular comment attached to the interview: ” I liked this interview. Both sides can talk without being interrupted and the presenter isn’t trying to prey on the interviewed person. All news channels should be like this “

Also, British-owned Sky News has been producing a steady flow of on-the-battlefield reports – by far more on-scene coverage than US media has produced. Two US journalists – one working for Fox News and another a free-lance producer named Brent Renaud – have been killed in the war so far.

This 40-minute report has gained 1.6 million views since it was posted March 12.