About this site

A private individual in Germany who runs this site in their spare time. No team, no newsroom, no third-party funding. Who that is can be found in full in the legal notice.

A structured collection of publicly accessible reports. Every incident has a case reference, at least one reachable source, a stated confidence level and a stated location precision. Everything is freely accessible, without an account and without a paywall.

The distinction matters, because a site with a map and numbers easily looks like more than it is.

• Not a news agency. We report nothing ourselves and have nobody on the ground.
• Not an authority. Nothing here is official, and nothing here replaces an official warning.
• Not an organisation. There is no association, no company and no members.
• Not situational awareness in the military sense. We evaluate reports, we observe nothing.

Reports come in automatically from a fixed list of sources. A language model proposes structured records from them. No proposal goes online without human review. Only what has at least one reachable source is published, and that rule is anchored in the database rather than being a declaration of intent.

Full methodology

Place names appear in transliteration from Ukrainian, so Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Chornobyl. That is not symbolic politics but the usual rule: names are transliterated from the official language of the country in which the place lies.

• Kyiv, not Kiev
• Zaporizhzhia, not Zaporozhye
• Chornobyl, not Chernobyl

The forms transliterated from Russian are still stored, but exclusively as search aliases. Type Kiev and you end up at Kyiv. The Russian form is displayed nowhere, because in a text about the war against this country it would make a statement we do not want to make.

• No attribution without evidence. Who attacked is stated only where a source supports it. Otherwise nothing is stated.
• No images of victims. No wounded, no dead, no rubble photos as a lead image. Casualty figures appear as a number with a source, not as a picture.
• No troop movements. This site shows infrastructure and its condition, not units and not front lines in detail.
• No targeting information. Nothing that makes a facility easier to attack: no weak points, no unprotected sites, no repair locations, no unpublished coordinates.