Ukraine Information Dashboard
Explainers, disinformation debunks, and common misconceptions
Russians are using an age-old military tactic of flooding to combat Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Why Putin invaded, in his own words
Putin falsely claimed Russia had to stop the West from arming Ukraine with nukes
Accepting Russia’s illegal conquest is a recipe for much more war
Saying the US obstructed negotiations deflects from Russia violating five prior agreements
[Russia has a history of co-opting anti-war movements](https://erosalie.notion.site/Russia-has-a-history-of-co-opting-anti-war-movements-c1fe9b939d9046b6a1cc46bf10332ecf)
Russia’s escalating pattern of behavior
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<img src="/icons/map-pin_gray.svg" alt="/icons/map-pin_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Russia has committed nearly all the crimes it is committing in Ukraine before. This constitutes a pattern of behavior established over the past 20 years.
- Chechnya, where Russians perpetrated rape and torture of women and children and carried out mass civilian executions, led to no consequences.
- Georgia, where Russia [ethnically](https://1tv.ge/lang/en/news/lawyer-ben-emmerson-echr-found-russia-guilty-of-a-widespread-campaign-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-south-ossetia/#:~:text=“The European Human,Russia war case.) [cleansed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/21/russia-human-rights-violation-georgia-war-echr-ruling#:~:text=“the european court confirmed that these violations carried out by russia amounted to ethnic cleansing of georgians during the 2008 war%2C” lordkipanidze declared.) Georgians and killed civilians indiscriminately, has only seen these crimes formally acknowledged by the European Court of Human Rights in the last year.
- In Syria, Russia helped the Assad regime cast doubt on its use of chemical weapons on civilians with a long-term coordinated campaign. Russia has been complicit in the torture of Syrians, killed thousands of children, used illegal cluster munitions [at least 125 times](https://snhr.org/blog/2022/09/30/seventh-annual-snhr-report-on-russian-forces-violations-since-the-beginning-of-russias-military-intervention-in-syria-on-september-30-2015/#:~:text=The report also notes that Russian forces have perpetrated at least 237 attacks using cluster munitions and at least 125 attacks using incendiary munitions since Russia’s military intervention in Syria on September 30%2C 2015.), and fired on US positions. “Russia has used its right to veto many times despite becoming a party to the Syrian conflict,” which violates the Charter of the United Nations, and there have been no meaningful consequences for Russian involvement.
- Ukraine received inadequate support in 2014 and was pressured to settle for peace. Russia invaded in 2022 anyway, in violation of the Minsk agreements.
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Live Universal Awareness Map
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Resources related to auditing US aid to Ukraine
Claims implying the US isn’t auditing aid to Ukraine are pants-on-fire false.
- Joint statements from Defense, State, and USAID
- Department of State Office of Inspector General (OIG) oversight of Ukraine
- Department of Defense (DoD) OIG Oversight of DoD Support to Ukraine
- USAID OIG Ukraine Oversight
- Ukraine related legislature
The Center for Countering Disinformation
The Center for Countering Disinformation publishes alerts and warnings about disinformation in and about Ukrainian. Google Chrome browsers will translate if you right-click with the mouse and choose “Translate to English.” If this option does not appear on your screen, find a translation extension or consider copying and pasting the text into a quality translator like Deepl.
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Other trusted sources for information on disinformation claims (some require translation; we recommend using Google Translate in the Chrome browser for ease):
Sanctions Tracker
Sanctions against Russia are economic weapons of the West in the Ukraine conflict. Correctiv is providing updates on which embargoes are imposed on whom and answers the most essential questions.