Currently, the OSINT network dedicated to uncovering war crimes in Ukraine comprises – at a minimum – six legal firms, nine academic hubs, 19 OSINT investigative teams (including names like Berkeley’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, Osint For Ukraine, Global Rights Compliance and the Ukrainian Molfar),

The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and the International Crimes Investigation Group (ICIG), which is part of OSINT for Ukraine (OFU), have launched a new collaboration to use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to support the search for missing children in Ukraine.

The Head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, with the participation of the jury members, awarded the winners of the hackathon with symbolic prizes and gifts. The following teams won the competition: “C4ADS” (USA); “Omega” (Yaroslav Mudryi NYU, Ukraine); “DeepStateUA” (Ukraine); “Eyes on Russia” (Centre for Information Resilience, Great Britain); “OSINT for Ukraine” (Netherlands).

We worked on the military bases in the Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus together with our colleagues from the Polish investigative journalism centres Frontstory.pl and V-Square.org, while journalists from Estonia's Eesti Ekspress gathered information on the military capabilities in western Russia. Satellite images were provided by Planet.com and analysed by colleagues from OSINT for Ukraine.

Open-Source Intelligence Investigations provided to my research by OSINT for Ukraine, uncovered how Russia’s forced adoption policy is being normalised through a network of professional adoptive parents and informal online communities.

What's more, the ban is limited to Russian state-backed media and doesn’t cover ‘alternative’ news sites and commentators that espouse Russian propaganda, said Christian Mamo, founding member of Dutch-based non-profit group Osint for Ukraine. He points to The Grayzone, a U.S.-based media, which is still active on Facebook despite its founder Max Blumenthal frequently writing for and appearing on RT.

OSINT for Ukraine Foundation has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) implicating five Russian officials in the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.

OSINT FOR UKRAINE filed a submission with the ICC regarding the responsibility of Russian officials for the abduction of Ukrainian children

A symbolic mock trial took place in Amsterdam to consider a case of alleged compensation for damages for lost housing in Mariupol due to Russian aggression.

Some non-profit groups like OSINT for Ukraine – a collective of ‘university students and young professionals dedicated to documenting war crimes in Ukraine’ – have collected vast amounts of public data in an attempt to verify and record instances of illegal activity.

Together with OSINT for Ukraine (OFU), we examined a hundred of the most popular German Telegram channels, both in Russian and in German, which belong to two main categories: some are aimed at the Russian-speaking community, while others target German-speaking citizens. We identified 18 recurring narratives related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and grouped them into four categories.

The Regional Center for Human Rights, along with its partners – the Media Initiative for Human Rights, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Yahad-In Unum, OSINT FOR UKRAINE and the Olenivka Community – filed a Submission with the International Criminal Court calling for an investigation into the mass murder and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka.

“Eyes on Russia” uses satellite imagery to map Russian and Belarusian military bases along the EU/NATO eastern frontier, just across the borders of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Six organisations joined forces to identify 24 critical points of military infrastructure. They commissioned high-resolution satellite images of the bases by Planet.com and verified Russia’s actual military capabilities near Poland and the Baltic countries’ borders with the help of military and intelligence sources and experts from renowned organisations in Central Eastern Europe.

Satellite imagery analysis was done with assistance from the research foundation OSINT For Ukraine. We then asked current and former Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, and NATO top military personnel to evaluate and comment on our findings.

During our months-long joint investigation, we identified key points of military infrastructure; commissioned high-resolution satellite images of the bases; and verified Russia’s actual military capabilities near Poland and the Baltic countries’ borders with the help of military and intelligence sources and experts from renowned organizations in Central Eastern Europe. We also analyzed the changes in these locations over recent years. The satellite images were provided by Planet.com and analyzed with the help of the investigative foundation OSINT For Ukraine.

Six Ukrainian civil society organizations, including the Regional Center for Human Rights, the Media Initiative for Human Rights, and NGO “Olenivka Community,” have formally appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure accountability for war crimes committed by the russian federation. Their communication seeks to uphold the principle of the inevitability of punishment for such crimes.

OSINT FOR UKRAINE is an independent non-profit foundation that specializes in the use of so-called open-source intelligence (OSINT) and the publication of investigative works in the field of international humanitarian and criminal law.

We are happy and proud to announce that Emile Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with OSINT FOR UKRAINE. This agreement strengthens our collaborative efforts in promoting truth, justice and investigating cases of Ukrainian children who have been illegally and forcibly deported to Russia or Occupied Territories.

Run by the sanctioned state agency Rossotrudnichestvo, the Russian House appears to flaunt sanctions and has been used as a venue for events hosted by affiliates and members of the German far-right AfD. Beyond this, the institute’s social media pages regularly promote and support the work of various Russian nationalist organizations, some of which have been accused of directly aiding the Russian military. An investigation by the Centre for Influence and Disinformation Research of OSINT for Ukraine exposed these barely hidden details.