Over the past year CIR has been investigating videos claiming to show executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces.

We found 22 incidents to be highly credible, amounting to 80 dead soldiers, believed to be Ukrainian.

Thread 🔽 Most are filmed by Ukrainian military drones, monitoring the frontline.

If you look closely, we can see 4 men in dark outfits here. While 3 men in lighter outfits are on their knees on the ground a short distance away from them.

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🚨NEW One year on from the discovery of mass graves, and after extensive investigation, today we can identify the enablers of torture in #Izium, #Ukraine.



#EyesonRussia 1/4 👇info-res.org/post/one-year-…
2/4 Our report identifies specific units from the Luhansk & Donetsk People’s Republic militias based at or near locations revealed to be torture sites by independent human rights investigators & journalists.

🚨1/4 Yesterday, an apparent Russian 'double tap' strike occurred in the city of #Pokrovsk. According to the governor of Donetsk Oblast, the first strike occurred in the city centre at 19:15 & the second at 19:52 local time as rescue efforts were underway.🧵 2/4 Pavlo Krylenko reported that the 'double tap' killed 7 (5 civilians; 2 responders) & injured 81 (39 inc 42 first responders). We have verified footage of several wounded civilians being treated, loaded into ambulances, & rescued from the damaged building.

On Tuesday 27 June a missile strike on a restaurant and hotel complex in central Kramatorsk left 13 people dead and dozens wounded. But a false conspiracy theory was spread on Twitter that the devastation was caused by a British Storm Shadow Missile. 1/16 info-res.org/post/off-cours… Hours before the deadly attack, a much smaller missile had landed in Kramatorsk. The impact coincided with an aircraft flying overhead, and the launch and impact was reported by multiple local sources.

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🧵1/ Nine months ago today, Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. Since then, our #EyesOnRussia project has investigated, verified & documented thousands of incidents from the conflict.

Our Monitoring Map has over 6600 entries. It's free for everyone.

maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru… 2/ The team is made up of investigators and volunteers from around the world, including from the UK, France, Ireland, Norway, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, Canada, the US, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, Tunisia & more. Below is just a snapshot of their work👇

1/ CIR has investigated images circulated today of the bullet-ridden car of Kirill Stremousov, who served the Russian occupation of Kherson as deputy governor until his death last week. Our investigators have ruled out claims that he was killed by gunfire. Thread by @gfusfus ⬇️ @gfusfus 2/ Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-assigned deputy governor of Kherson Oblast died in a car crash on November 9, 2022. Today, a week after the crash, images emerged on social media, showing bullet holes on the right side of the vehicle.

🚨NEW REPORT: Six months today, an attack on Kramatorsk rail station killed 59 civilians - including many children. They were attempting to flee.

Using #OSINT, our report shows how Russia was responsible for this horrendous act- THREAD 👇

info-res.org/post/verificat… 2/ Available open-source evidence points to multiple potential launch locations, in part due to significant Russian activity before and after the Kramatorsk attack.

Data gathered from the morning of the strike indicates that several Russian missile instalments were active.

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As "voting" begins in a sham referendum in occupied Kherson, we reveal how Russian-backed occupiers are trying to make accession an inevitability. ⬇️

info-res.org/post/parallel-… Soldiers invade, but it’s bureaucrats who occupy—that’s the reality currently playing out in the occupied parts of the Kherson region, where the Russian invasion has been followed by a second assault by bureaucrats, bankers, commercial interests & law enforcement.

🚨 New report by CIR on the latest events at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ⬇️ On 3 March, Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The largest NPP in Europe & one of the largest in the world.

It has been six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and we have documented, verified and investigated each step of the way as the Kremlin pursuits a senseless war on Ukraine.

Here is a thread on what we have seen so far.

#EyesOnRussia 🧵👇 On the outset, our Ukraine Witness archive currently sits at more than 11,000 entries of videos and photos, which are categorised, verified and analysed.

This archive is shared with justice, accountability, humanitarian and research groups to support them where it matters.

The Russian Government is brainwashing children to build support for its war on Ukraine.

But what’s being done, who is doing it, and what does this tell us about the Kremlin’s wider strategy on Ukraine?

We take a look 👇

NEW REPORT: info-res.org/post/the-kreml… For the past four months @93Bcr & @Gralhix have been documenting what’s being said in Kremlin media and pro-Russian channels, specifically around content supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There’s a lot of it to look at, but one clear trend emerged.

Russian missiles struck apartments and a kindergarten in Kyiv today causing widespread damage, killing one and injuring five.

We traced back footage to identify the path the missiles took and where the attack may have come from.

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https://twitter.com/OhmTatjana/status/1541000668789579777?s=20&t=I-meP6EQyG7yGTsEWmx10A

The apartments seen in the footage above are a series of buildings called the Lviv Quarter (Львівський квартал), located here: 50.462606, 30.487061. We have matched them to the satellite imagery as seen below.

A Ukrainian military factory was bombed in Kyiv's east on the morning of April 16. How was it discovered? And who found its location?

Our new report shows how a pro-Kremlin Telegram group located the factory, and claimed responsibility for the bombing. info-res.org/post/killer-co… Initial reporting from the April 16 bombing of the military vehicle repair factory in Kyiv shows that numerous people were injured, and some were killed. Source: gazeta.ua/ru/articles/ki…

A Ukrainian zoo posted this video of locals helping to evacuate animals. A month later, the zoo and remaining animals were bombed by Russia.

It’s not the only one. A number of zoos were shelled, cluster bombed, animals & caretakers - killed.

NEW REPORT info-res.org/post/endangere… Why were Russian forces targeting zoo areas like what we see here in this footage from Feldman Park? Our grim report by @Gralhix documents the losses suffered by zoos and parks across Ukraine as animals struggle to survive and people attempt to rescue them from certain death.

🚨NEW: A short explainer on Russia's "International Public Tribunal on #Ukraine" - @elisethoma5 explains what it is, who sits on it, & why we should be suspicious.

Thread 🧵 and link below ⬇️

info-res.org/post/explainer… 1. On April 20th 2022, Russia MFA spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced that the Russian Investigative Committee would be working with the International Public Tribunal on Ukraine to gather “information on the Kiev [sic] regime’s crimes.”

🚨New Investigation: Our Eyes on Russia team have verified the presence of a series of mass graves in the Yalivshchyna forest near Chernihiv.

1) Link below and THREAD👇

info-res.org/post/the-yaliv… 2) In the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the city of Chernihiv experienced heavy bombardment from Russian troops approaching from the Ukraine-Belarus border.

Over the past two months we have mapped more than 1600 videos & photos documenting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We are starting this new thread to focus on the geolocation of Russian firing positions causing destruction in Ukraine. Our map: maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru… Satellite imagery from @planet on 24 February shows what appears to be burn marks on the ground in a field in Russia, near Ukraine's border. The location of these marks are about 50km north of Kharkiv.

Location: 50.444247, 36.448983

A lot of footage is being posted online of Russian military movements along the Ukrainian border. We’re working with the #OSINT community to document, verify & map this information. You can find our map of verified movements here: maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru… How do we verify this information? We use simple open source techniques such as imagery analysis & geolocation to confirm where, when and what is in the footage. For example, this is one of the videos we have verified:

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1484837416959627267?s=20&t=2SCFh-Ohbkw9DfEB3_vhnw