OSINT for Ukraine

OSINT for Ukraine (stylised OSINT FOR UKRAINE, sometimes OFU) is an autonomous, non-profit organisation focused on using open-source intelligence (OSINT) to investigate international crimes committed on Ukrainian territory or against Ukrainian citizens, examine influence and disinformation operations across Europe, and provide various levels of OSINT training..

It was founded in 2022, shortly after the beginning of Russian invasion of Ukraine, by Deniz M. Dirisu, Vasile Popa, Alexander Rietveldt, and Ivan Kostiuk.

Open-source intelligence, or publicly available data, has been shown to play an unprecedented role in establishing evidence in Russian invasion of Ukraine. Organisations like Bellingcat have published investigations that utilise open-source intelligence, such as the one on Russian artillery strikes against Ukrainians

OSINT FOR UKRAINE has collaborated on an investigation with Vitsche, the collective of Ukrainians living in Germany, titled 'Networks of Influence: The Russian Hand in German Politics'.

'Project Mariupol: A Record of Evil' is OSINT FOR UKRAINE's interactive map, which uses open-source intelligence to record war crimes committed by Russia on Ukrainian territory: described by Human Rights Watch as 'massive loss of civilian life, infrastructure'.