The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort by @Cen4infoRes and the wider open source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine.
@Cen4infoRes@BenDoBrown Given the sheer volume of content being posted online, Bellingcat (and others) will be helping verify and map incidents. The map itself can be accessed here: maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru…
@Cen4infoRes@BenDoBrown The map is publicly viewable on both desktop and mobile and, as of 24 February, had logged more than 570 items to give an up to date, detailed view of what is happening in Ukraine.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ongoing, it’s easy to forget about the dubious provocations designed to implicate Ukrainian forces before war began
Bellingcat asked a forensic pathologist & explosives expert to analyse one particularly concerning claim bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…
According to reports in Russian and separatist media, an IED was said to have detonated on a highway in the DPR, impacting two vehicles - a van and a car on February 22.
Bellingcat has identified multiple examples of cluster munitions being fired into civilian areas of Ukraine, including residential areas, schools and hospitals.
Cluster munitions deploy a large number of smaller sub-munitions over a target, which then spread out and cover an area in explosions. They are often described as an indiscriminate weapon due to the inherently large area they affect.
We are seeking images of Uragan 9M27K and Smerch 9M55K cluster rocket and their submunitions from the current fighting in Ukraine, as well as videos of suspected cluster munition attacks. If you have any, reply with a link to the source if possible.
Currently geolocated videos and photographs related to cluster munition use. Bucha, 50.546169, 30.205566
The below video showing a cluster munition canister from a BM-30 rocket has been geolocated to 50.3086824, 34.8723472, in the town of Okhtyrka, Sumy. Notably we have also geolocated it just 200m to the east of the kindergarten that was reportedly attacked
Currently there is not enough information to establish if the two are linked, but the location of the canister remains, and that it appears to have landed from the direction of the school, suggests this Russian cluster munition may be connected to the kindergarten attack.
We continue to seek information about this attack, in particular the remains of munitions at the attack site itself, and any rocket motors from BM-30 rockets in the same town.
If you're sharing videos and photographs from Ukraine with accountability in mind, please make an effort to share them with links to the source you're using, it greatly assists organisations who are verifying conflict incidents.
Wherever possible we're seeking to find where videos were posted originally, so we can understand the context they were originally posted in, and it helps us eliminate videos that are just old videos being reposted for clicks.
It also allows us to examine associated metadata, especially where videos have been shared on Telegram, which retains file metadata, unlike the majority of social media platforms.
This video showing damage to civilian apartment buildings was filmed at 49.850727, 36.659762 in Chuhuiv, near an airport that was the likely target of the attack. Civilian casualties have been reported from the attack attributed to Russian forces.