Thanks to all the people on Twitter, as well as those who are working with Bellingcat directly, for volunteering their time this weekend to help gathered and share reliable information about the conflict in Ukraine. May our children and partners forgive us in time.
Personally I've been astonished by how quickly a community has come together to collect and process this information, and I think it's really having a genuine impact on how the world has seen the build up to the conflict and how it's unfolding each day.
I had expected the Ukraine community that's been following the conflict since 2014 to play a big part in understanding what's happening, but I've also seen a lot of new names getting involved, so kudos to those of you who have gotten involved.
We're also in a better place to collect, verify, and archive material. We're collaborating with @CITeam_en @Cen4infoRes and @mnemonicorg to ensure as much archived material from the conflict is available for future use in accountability efforts.
This was an ad hoc collaboration that formed in the build recent Russian military build up, and it's a credit to all the organisations involved they were able to come together so rapidly to perform such a important task.
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