Smartphones have been essential for combatants and civilians in Ukraine by providing ways to share footage of the war.
Ukrainian army soldier Dasha, 22, checks her phone after a military sweep on the outskirts of Kyiv last Friday. Smartphones have been essential for combatants and civilians in the war and have provided a means to share footage directly from the scene of fighting.
All amplified over thousands of Telegram channels, Twitter feeds and TikTok accounts around the world. "Most times, professional militaries don't have their phones out filming in the middle of a gun fight," said Kyle Glen, one of a dedicated group of internet sleuths who have been sorting through the reams of video and images coming out of Ukraine and disseminating it for English-speaking audiences, primarily on Twitter.
Verifying the provenance and veracity of footage often requires a hive-mind approach, with some contributing specialized expertise and others simply the doggedness to dissect and cross-reference sources. They often share insights on the messaging platform Discord before releasing the content elsewhere.
Earlier this week, for example, a Russian channel on the messaging platform Telegram, where the bulk of war news within Ukraine has been shared, posted what were purportedly Western-made rocket launchers seized from the Ukrainians by the Russian military. Analyzing weapons and military equipment being used by Russians and Ukrainians has become its own sub-specialty of OSINT coverage. Accounts such as Ukraine Weapons Tracker and#UkraineWar: Newly added Russian equipment losses:1x Unknown tank 1x BMP-3 IFV 1x BTR-ZD 'Skrezhet' SPAAG 1x KamAZ 4x4 tanker 1x UAZ-469 jeep Full list: https://t.
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