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27 Mar, 2024
Update
Iraq, Syria, Ukraine

Airwars wins Sigma data journalism award

Recognition for project tracking Russian Shahed drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians
8 Sep, 2023
Investigations
Ukraine

A year of the Shahed

How Russia turned to a cheap Iranian-made suicide drone to terrorise civilians and hit infrastructure across Ukraine
1 Sep, 2023
Visualisation
Ukraine

Reported Shahed drone launches in Ukraine: August 2022-September 2023

Mapping every reported Shahed launch into Ukraine between September 13, 2022 and August 30, 2023
A still from the Russian Ministry of Defence shows a soldier in Ukraine launching reconnaissance drones
6 Jul, 2023
Investigations
Ukraine

The new Russian drone linked to Iran-backed factory

Airwars/FT investigations shines light on secretive Alabuga 'special economic zone'
5 Jul, 2023
Research
Ukraine

Документування паттернів завдання шкоди цивільному населенню в Харкові: Методологічна записка

Методологічна записка Airwars пояснює підхід до документування паттернів шкоди цивільним у Харкові
Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, where he talked to local residents and journalists. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, where mass killings of civilians took place during the occupation by Russian troops.
20 Jun, 2023
Investigations
Ukraine

Will German electronics end up in Russian drones?

German tech parts found their way to Russian military drones despite sanctions, flowing through shadowy networks of middlemen and shell companies
18 May, 2023
Update
Ukraine

Оприлюднено інтерактивну базу даних заподіяної цивільному населенню шкоди у битві за Харків

Airwars запускає інтерактивну базу даних про цивільні жертви в битві за Харків, виявляючи 275-438 загиблих від вибухової зброї (лют-трав 2022)
18 May, 2023
Research
Ukraine

Характер шкоди, завданої цивільному населенню внаслідок дій Росії в Харківській області згідно з повідомленнями місцевих джерел

Airwars задокументувала 275-438 смертей цивільних у Харківській області лютий-травень 2022 від російської вибухової зброї
18 May, 2023
Policy, Research
Ukraine

Patterns of civilian harm from alleged Russian actions in Kharkiv oblast

Russian forces killed hundreds of Kharkiv civilians during the 2022 invasion, research finds
18 May, 2023
Research
Ukraine

Documenting patterns of harm in Kharkiv: Methodology note

How we're applying our methodology
18 May, 2023
Update
Ukraine

Battle of Kharkiv interactive civilian harm database launched

Interactive database documenting civilian harm in the Battle of Kharkiv
17 May, 2023
Visualisation
Ukraine

Civilian harm in the Battle of Kharkiv

Highest rates of civilian harm found in the city of Saltivskyi
17 May, 2023
Visualisation
Ukraine

Reported civilian deaths Russian actions in the Battle of Kharkiv in Ukraine

Database tracks casualties in Kharkiv during Russia's 2022 invasion
23 Nov, 2022
Policy
Iraq, Syria, Ukraine

SNP launches paper on the protection of civilians with extensive civil society input

How a future independent Scotland would conduct conflict and protect civilians
4 May, 2022
Investigations, Policy
Ukraine

Counting the Dead in Ukraine

A longstanding mechanism for verifying casualties of the Ukraine conflict have been subsumed by the scale of carnage since Russia’s February invasion.
12 Apr, 2022
Investigations
Ukraine

Anatomy of a Russian cluster munition strike

Airwars examined a single Russian cluster munition strike on a blood donation centre and hospital, which may have caused a 350 metre span of damage, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
7 Apr, 2022
Investigations
Ukraine

Counting the casualties in Ukraine – an interview with the UN Monitoring Mission

Why is the United Nations figure for the number of civilians killed in Ukraine so much lower than other estimates? Uladzimir Shcherbau, head of the UN civilian casualty monitoring team in the country,
7 Apr, 2022
Policy
Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Palestinian territories, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen

Five takeaways from the first day of EWIPA negotiations

The shadow of the Ukraine conflict loomed large over the first day of the informal UN-backed consultations on a political declaration on restricting the use of wide area effect explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA), currently underway in Geneva. Delegates from more than 65 nations have gathered to fine tune the language of the political […]
22 Mar, 2022
Investigations, Policy
Syria, Ukraine

How Russia is using tactics from the Syrian playbook in Ukraine

Entire settlements reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian targets and the bombing of refugee exit routes were all part of Moscow’s brutal Syria campaign
15 Mar, 2022
Investigations
Ukraine

Civilian status in the Ukraine conflict: a rough guide

Do citizens who take up arms to resist Russian invasion lose protected status? A layperson's guide to the lines between civilians, militants and soldier.