The project

Document, cross-reference, transmit

This map gathers, category by category, the war crimes committed by Russian forces since the beginning of the aggression against Ukraine in 2014. Every incident is tied to a place, a date and a legal qualification, so the corpus can be queried across dimensions: for instance the destruction of hospitals in a given region between two dates.

Categories

9

Incidents

51

Places

23

Victims

2,569

How to read the map

• Stackable layers — point incidents, density by oblast, occupied territories by period, protected sites (hospitals, schools, heritage) and deportation flows can be displayed at once, with an opacity control to compare them.
• Cross-filtering — crime type, period and region combine. The counter of each category recalculates according to the other active filters.
• Previews — hovering a point or a category shows a summary; clicking opens a detailed record with chronology, sources and testimonies.
• Sharing — the filter state is written into the page address: a cross-filtered search can be shared as is.

Testimonies

10 testimonies are attached to the documented places. In the production version, each one links to a video interview and to the incidents it describes.

Data and sources

The dataset shown here is a demonstration set. Its structure mirrors a real database, so a verified corpus can replace it without redesigning the interface. Each language is stored as a separate field, exactly as a multilingual database would.