This is a sort of collection of collections about various data points and the way sanctions affect the Russian economy.

Collections

• European council: Think Tank reports on the invasion of Ukraine
• BOFIT Russia Statistics
• BOFIT Policy briefs
• The European Economic Review has some timely sanctions analyses (see here for quick PDF download links of open-access articles)
• CEPR’s VoxEU columns and publications about the war in Ukraine and consequences for Russia
• Free Russia Foundation research and reports
• Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy
• Kyiv School of Economics: News and reports
• Danish Institute for International Studies: Policy briefs and academic publications
• Ukrainian Ministry of Finance: War in Ukraine collection, Sanctions against Russia (text-based, in chronological order)

Sanctions trackers

• Main database of sanctions by the Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention
• Correctiv’s Sanctions tracker
• “Nowhere To Run”: Dashboard, Designation Lists
• OpenSanctions.org, with a “showcase” of usage: OpenSanctions in the wild
• Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE): Russia’s war on Ukraine: A sanctions timeline
• Atlantic Council: Global Sanctions Dashboard: Russia and beyond

Data about the Russian economy

• HSE.ru macroeconomic dashboard
• RosStat press releases
• Bruegel Russian foreign trade tracker
• UN COMTRADE (trading data, available only up to 2021 as of writing, i.e. 2023-02-21)
• Bruegel: European natural gas imports

Disclaimer

After leaving several drafts sitting on my hard drive for months, I’ve decided to publish them, unfinished as they may be. This post is one such draft.

Shellings and Missile Impacts

• Map of Destruction by “Anti-Corruption headquarters”, in cooperation with Kyiv School of Economics
• Ukraine Data Explorer by The Humanitarian Data Exchange
• ACLED Ukraine Hub: Dashboard
• Eyes on Russia map
• Bellingcat’s Ukraine map
• GeoConfirmed map
• Shellings and other operational events map by @DefMon3
• Attack map by Texty.org.ua

• Organisation forensic-architecture: timemap, datasheet-server
• Social networking service scraper
• OS2INT: Batch scraping from Telegram channels and groups using TG-API
• Bellingcat’s Johanna Wild: These are the Tools Open Source Researchers Say They Need

Disclaimer

After leaving several drafts sitting on my hard drive for months, I’ve decided to publish them, unfinished as they may be. This post is one such draft.

Sources

Research interest: Tracking and mapping missile and artillery strikes utilizing precision guided munitions (PGM).

Statistics and dashboards

• UAWarData: Tracking the Russian invasion
• Ragnar Gudmundsson: Tracking Russia’s losses in Ukraine (see “shellings” tab, data from DefMon3, in turn from General Staff of Ukraine GSUA)
• They heard the call / Danylo Mylian / Observable

Raw data

• GSUA DefMon3 - Google Sheets (“Exportable list of GSUA shellings updated most of the days. You can use this to import locations to google maps or Scribblemaps.”)
• NASA | LANCE | FIRMS
• leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine: Equipment Loss Tracking - from Oryx
• scarnecchia/scrape_oryx: A simple R script for extracting tabular data from Oryx

Maps

• Map: Civilian Harm in Ukraine (Bellingcat) shows strikes on civilian infrastructure, links to social media sources, also allows exporting data to CSV and JSON. Blog post: Bellingcat
• AlarmMap Online - Ukraine war map
• Operational Map Ukraine : Scribble Maps (DefMon3 twitter)
• Weapons of the War in Ukraine, November 2021 public release, Conflict Armaments Research (CAR) itrace
• Ukraine Interactive map
• Documenting Russia’s advanced weapon systems in Ukraine
• Drones in Ukraine

Investigations

• Invasion of Ukraine: Tracking use of Cluster Munitions in Civilian Areas - bellingcat
• Russian War Report: Geolocating fires in Bryansk - Atlantic Council

Ukrainian government-affiliated sources

Regional military administration (ODA) Telegram channels:

• Vinnytsia https://t.me/vinnytskaODA
• Volyn https://t.me/volynskaODA
• Dnipropetrovsk https://t.me/dnipropetrovskaODA
• Donetsk https://t.me/pavlokyrylenko_donoda
• Zhytomyr https://t.me/zhytomyrskaODA
• Transcarpathian https://t.me/zakarpatskaODA
• Zaporozhye https://t.me/starukhofficial
• Ivano-Frankivsk https://t.me/onyshchuksvitlana
• Kyiv https://t.me/kyivoda
• Kirovograd https://t.me/chornamary
• Luhansk https://t.me/luhanskaVTSA
• Lviv https://t.me/kozytskyy_maksym_official
• Mykolaiv https://t.me/mykolaivskaODA
• Odessa https://t.me/odeskaODA
• Poltava https://t.me/DMYTROLUNIN
• Rivne https://t.me/s/vitalykoval8
• Sumy https://t.me/Zhyvytskyy
• Ternopil https://t.me/ternopilskaODA
• Kharkiv https://t.me/synegubov
• Kherson https://t.me/khersonskaODA
• Khmelnytsky https://t.me/khmelnytskaODA
• Cherkasy https://t.me/AleksandrSkichko
• Chernivtsi https://t.me/chernivetskaODA
• Chernihiv https://t.me/chernigivskaODA

State Emergency Services of Ukraine (SESU) / DSNS:

• t.me/dsns_telegram
• t.me/dsns_kyiv_region
• t.me/dsns_sumy

Armed Forces - ZSU t.me/operativnoZSU

Regional prosecutors (Prokuratura)

• t.me/prokuratura_kharkiv

Russian government-affiliated sources

Ministry of Defence

• English t.me/mod_russia_en
• Russian t.me/mod_russia

Tweets

Searching twitter.com, from 22th of February until 31st of August: since:2022-02-22 until:2022-08-31

• Rob Lee @RALee85: missile
• Ukraine Weapons Tracker @UAWeapons: missile
• Term: missile
• Term: kalibr
• Term: S-300
• Term: kh-55
• Term: kh-22
• Term: krasnopol (krasnopil)
• Term: pgm
• Term: strike
• Term: precision

Telegram

• Trawling ukrainian_videos channel, which in turn aggregates data from multiple war-focussed sources (already includes automated translations via Google Translate).
• Aggregating data from ODA and DSNS channels (see previous post).