U k r a і n e w a r a r c h i v e

The largest independent multimedia archive of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The Ukraine War Archive preserves and organises digital records related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Bringing together materials from civil society organisations, journalists, researchers, and individual contributors, the Archive forms a long-term digital infrastructure designed to preserve evidence, support future accountability and justice processes, and strengthen public understanding of the war.

The Archive provides secure access to authorised users, including investigators, journalists, documentary filmmakers, researchers, and cultural practitioners, enabling responsible engagement with materials and their preservation for future generations.

Digital evidence is fragile. Platforms disappear, links break, and records can be lost or distorted over time. The Archive exists to preserve these materials with integrity, context, and documented provenance so that civilian experiences and evidence are not erased by time, political change, or technological failure.

When materials are preserved responsibly, the possibility of future justice remains open.

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Our project in numbers

~37 mln

Downloaded media files

88000

In-house and partner materials

8600+

Interviews with witnesses of war and war crimes

~53.8 mln

Files from open sources

4275+

Channels are automatically archived

36000

Registered events and potential war crimes

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Ukraine War Archive (UWA) is a non-profit collaborative digital preservation platform that creates a unified register of materials related to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

With innovative technological and methodological approaches, it serves as a tool for Ukrainian and international organizations to preserve history and fairly represent events in legal, historical, and cultural discourse, establishing a foundation for truth and justice.

Why It Matters

Russia’s war against Ukraine is widely regarded as the most documented war in history. Millions of photographs, videos, testimonies, and digital records are being created in real time across social media platforms, news organisations, civil society initiatives, and personal devices.

Yet without long-term preservation and structured management, these materials remain vulnerable to disappearance, fragmentation, manipulation, and technological loss.

The Archive exists to preserve and organise these materials within a secure archival infrastructure so they remain accessible and usable for future investigations, research, historical memory, cultural work, and justice processes.

Archive Materials

The Archive preserves materials that document the human, social, and physical realities of Russia's war against Ukraine.

Its collections include photographs, videos, testimonies, social media materials, interviews, and other wartime records contributed by civil society organisations, journalists, researchers, and direct witnesses.

Alongside documentation of attacks, destruction, displacement, and potential war crimes, the Archive also preserves evidence of everyday life during wartime, civilian resilience, local initiatives, and personal experiences of survival and resistance.

The Archive conducts witness interviews in accordance with recognised documentation standards and preserves these testimonies for future historical, research, and legal purposes.

Who We Are

The Ukraine War Archive was established in March 2022 through a collaboration between Docudays and Infoscope in response to the urgent need to preserve records of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Since its founding, the Archive has developed into an independent organisation bringing together archivists, analysts, technology specialists, researchers, documentation experts, and legal professionals.

Today, the Archive works with a broad network of Ukrainian and international partners to preserve, structure, and protect wartime documentation for future generations.

Our Mission

The Archive works to preserve and structure digital materials related to Russia’s war against Ukraine within a secure long-term archival infrastructure.

Our mission is:

To preserve wartime documentation and civilian testimonies.
To support future accountability and justice processes.
To facilitate responsible research and public understanding of the war.
To protect materials from loss, manipulation, and technological disappearance.
To strengthen civic memory and historical continuity.

We work at the intersection of memory, justice, and knowledge.

We also collect:

records of daily events, registering potential war crimes;
audio, video and photo materials from open sources;
information about the location of Russian military units;
materials from published research and investigations;
a database of Russian propaganda and the development of pro-Russian narratives.

How the Archive Works

The Archive combines digital preservation infrastructure, archival methodology, and secure data management to preserve and structure wartime documentation at scale.

Materials received by the Archive undergo workflows including tagging, contextual description, transcription, translation, metadata preservation, and verification procedures.

Access to Archive materials is managed through secure systems designed to protect sensitive information while enabling responsible use by authorised users.

Long-term protection and integrity are ensured through backup systems, cybersecurity protocols, and preservation measures.