Konstantin says that he’s now living in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Republic, now independent. It’s pretty backward, so it might be that the uploads go from Tashkent, Uzbekistan through a server in Russia, and from there to the greater world.
As to mothers and wives losing their men, it is a horrid phenomenon wherever it occurs.
Unlike the vivid and horrific first-person video journalism we are seeing from Israel by major news agencies, the Ukraine-Russia war -- whatever one's stance -- is being told by precious few real witnesses. It is more an information war, much from afar off, of a self-proclaimed and grifting commentariat.
I worked twice in Eretz Yisrael and walked the partial walls around lovely Jerusalem. And, as it was so long ago, I even stood in the Al Aqsa when almost no one was there. The Chagall stained glass in the Hadassah synagogue remains for me a treasure of the world. Stay safe.