DATTALION: UKRAINE’S DATA BATTALION

DATTALION – Ukraine's Data Battalion – is a project founded and run by women in Ukraine (many of them mothers and wives), supported by international volunteers, fighting on the information frontlines of russia’s war against Ukraine.

DATTALION is home to the largest free and independent open-source database of photo and video footage from the war, as well as a database of verified eyewitnesses to the horrors of russia’s invasion.

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We are Ukrainians, trying to survive russia’s worst attacks. We are sharing real photos and videos from the frontlines, so that the world can bear witness to the truth. Journalists frequently cannot be in the most dangerous hotspots of the war in Ukraine - the risks of injury and death are too high - so we collate the stories and images of war for journalists to use and for all to see.

We are providing this data and video free of charge to all, and in particular so that reporters around the globe can see and share what russia is really doing to us. There are many mothers among us, witnessing many battles up close, and we are sick of seeing our children, families, and neighbors being murdered before our very eyes.

We want to counter the russian government’s misinformation about what we are living through in this war. russia’s good people, and concerned people all around the world, need to see what is really happening on the ground in Ukraine. You need to see the atrocities being committed by the russian military here.

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DATTALION
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3800 +

Videos

10800 +

Photos

100+

Volunteers

32500+

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3500+ videos

DATTALION so far has more than 3500 videos and photos. The videos show all regions of Ukraine. The timeline is from the beginning of the war to the present day. We are constantly updating this database as we receive new videos and photographs from the war’s hotspots.

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3500 videos and photos in our database

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Bombing• Prisoners of War• Hospitals• Schools / kindergartens• Military equipment• Fire• Civilians• Ukraine military• Combat• Weapons (gun, Molotov cocktails)• Churches• Historical buildings• Government buildings

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Eyewitness database

Human face on the stories of war

DATTALION offers a unique database of 60+ verified eyewitnesses who have survived the atrocities, exile, and horrors of the russian army's invasion of Ukraine, including from Vinnytsia, Mariupol, and Kharkiv.

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verified eye witnesses from Vinnytsia, Mariupol, Kharkiv and other locations

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Eyewitness database
Human face on the stories of war
DATTALION offers a unique database of 60+ verified eyewitnesses who have survived the atrocities, exile, and horrors of the russian army's invasion of Ukraine, including from Vinnytsia, Mariupol, and Kharkiv.

Our mission

DATTALION’S MISSION is to help Ukraine win this terrible war by revealing the brutal truth about russian atrocities and the genocide of Ukrainians, and by making clear to the world what Ukraine needs to win and rebuild.

DATTALION’s goals

Empower media around the world to tell their audiences the truth about russia's war in Ukraine, by providing free and easy to access video, photos, and eyewitness testimony from the frontlines.

Collect and store evidence of war crimes, environmental crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide against Ukrainians committed by russia in Ukraine.

By sending an explicit warning and sharing unambiguous factual evidence about the threat russia poses to the democratic international system, make clear to the world the vital need to stand with Ukraine to win this war.