Bellingcat operates on donations. And their goal is to investigate and uncover wrongdoing all around the world.
With the current Russia-Ukraine conflict the team has created an open-source Russian Ukraine Monitor Map to track and confirm the developments of the war in near real-time.
Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort that depends on volunteers in the field and verifying personnel at the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR). Collection for the incidents contained in the map began on February 24, 2022. And users can explore incidents by type, date and location.
Each color coded, highlighted point on the map is clickable. And allows the user to view in-depth details about the events taking place.
The Bellingcat website claims that “the wider open-source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine. Its aim is to provide reliable information for policymakers, journalists as well as justice and accountability bodies about the evolving situations both on-the-ground and online. Bellingcat and the Conflict Intelligence Team. “
