Ukraine Conflict Vehicle Tracking Project: First Days

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Earlier this week, Bellingcat launched the Ukraine conflict vehicle tracking project, a collaborative effort where we collect reports on movement of military equipment in and near Ukraine to determine if Russian units have crossed the border. The data is collected on a beautiful platform called Silk, where it can be analyzed and visualized in many different ways.
The launch grabbed plenty of attention:

We hope to keep growing the data set through community contributions via Checkdesk, and we’re off to a great start! The following graph shows real-time status of reports added to the database, by date:

Another view shows the latest additions:

Also happy to note that redditors had found the equipment list with pictures useful, as it can be used as a quick guide to identifying some of the most common vehicles seen in the conflict.

As mentioned previously, we welcome contributions to the project’s data set via Checkdesk:

 

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