Ukraine War Analytics
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Ukraine War Analytics is an open-source research platform that aggregates and structures data on the Russia-Ukraine war from verified sources such as government releases, UN agencies, and investigative journalists. It offers over 5,000 articles across topics like frontline battles, weapons, sanctions, and humanitarian impact for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the general public.
Also known as UWA
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Ukraine War Analytics operates a public web platform that aggregates, structures and contextualises publicly available data on the Russia–Ukraine war. The site organises its content into categories such as frontline and battles, weapons and equipment, strategic analysis, diplomacy and politics, economy and sanctions, air defence, drone warfare, humanitarian impact, regions and cities, cyber and information warfare, mobilisation, military technology, key people, war timeline, historical background, and OSINT resources. Its press kit describes 7,300+ pages of analysis across 27 categories, with a sitemap index covering 25 category sub-sitemaps and roughly 5,300 URLs.
Alongside written analysis, the site presents quantitative trackers and visualisations: a homepage dashboard of headline war statistics (days of war, refugees abroad, committed military aid, territory occupied, personnel and equipment losses, infrastructure damage estimates, donor-nation counts), charts on refugees by host country, aid by country and type, and a military aid delivery tracker comparing committed against delivered aid by contributing country. Editorial and structural features include per-article read times, section-level article counts and "last updated" dates, a "Cite This Page" widget on content pages, downloadable JSON/XML data files, and embeddable iframe widgets for losses, aid and refugee data.
The project states it is maintained by a team of open-source researchers, data analysts and subject-matter contributors with backgrounds in political science, defence studies, international relations and data engineering, and that it is not affiliated with any government, political party, military organisation or commercial interest. Some pages carry desk bylines (for example "UWA Economy Desk"). Content quality is uneven across the site: certain long-form pages contain dated or internally inconsistent material, and headline statistics differ between page sections (for example, Russian personnel losses shown as 833K+ in one homepage module and 897,000+ in another).
Business model
The site states it is operationally supported by reader-facing advertising (Google AdSense) and voluntary contributions, and that it receives no funding from any state actor. Content is offered free for non-commercial research, academic and news use with attribution or citation; commercial use requires contacting the operator for licensing terms, and data redistribution is not permitted without written consent.
Advertising (Google AdSense), voluntary reader contributions, and commercial content/data licensing negotiated on request.
Traction
Self-reported scale is the main available indicator: 7,300+ pages across 27 categories, roughly 5,300 URLs in the sitemap, 300+ documented engagements, and section counts such as 82 articles in Military Technology and 104 in Comparisons as of 2026-03-15, with headline analysis pieces published through late May 2026. No audience, traffic, revenue or funding figures are disclosed in the available sources.
Latest developments
The most recent site updates in the sources are analysis pieces dated May 2026, including assessments of the spring 2026 military situation, a Donetsk/Zaporizhzhia/Kharkiv frontline assessment, drone warfare evolution, Russian casualty trends, and NATO summit coverage, together with a May 2026 update of the military aid delivery tracker.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positions itself as a comprehensive independent open-source aggregator and analysis hub for the Russia-Ukraine war, sitting downstream of primary trackers and institutions it cites (UNHCR, Kiel Institute Ukraine Support Tracker, World Bank, UN OHCHR, Oryx, ISW, SIPRI, ACLED, Ukrainian General Staff) rather than generating primary battlefield data itself.
Published methodology with a three-tier source hierarchy, a requirement that quantitative claims be cross-referenced against at least two independent sources, explicit labelling of confirmed versus estimated versus alleged claims, a stated revision policy, sensitive-content rules barring graphic imagery and dehumanising language, and researcher-facing infrastructure (citation widgets, open JSON/RSS data files, embeddable trackers).
Technology
A content-heavy website with structured data outputs rather than a proprietary software product: machine-readable JSON files (war-stats.json with key war statistics; api.json providing a structured data API with statistics, category index and site metadata), an RSS/XML feed of the latest 50 articles, an XML sitemap index, live counters (day-of-war ticker), interactive maps and charts, and lightweight responsive iframe widgets that update automatically. Data collection is described as systematic aggregation via tracked RSS feeds, official publication monitors and a structured OSINT review workflow, explicitly avoiding reliance on an automated web-scraping pipeline as a sole source.
Go-to-market
Distribution is organic and SEO/content-led: a large body of indexed topic pages and category listings, an RSS feed, a press and media kit with brand assets and a media contact form, pre-formatted citation blocks encouraging academic and journalistic referencing, and free embeddable widgets that carry automatic "Data: Ukraine War Analytics" attribution links back to the site.
Journalists, researchers and academics, media professionals, policy-oriented readers, and general audiences following the Russia-Ukraine war; the press kit and citation/embed tooling are aimed specifically at newsroom and research users.
Geography
No headquarters or operating location is disclosed. Content is primarily in English with some Ukrainian-language section labels and headings, and coverage is focused on Ukraine, Russia and international donor and diplomatic actors.
History
The press kit states the project was founded in 2022 and has tracked the war since 24 February 2022. Site content spans an analytical scope framed as 2022–2026. A versioned methodology and editorial guidelines page (version 1.0) was published with a last-updated date of 19 March 2026, and section pages carry last-updated dates of 15 March 2026, with the homepage showing analysis dated through May 2026.
Risks & controversies
Key-figure inconsistency across the site (differing Russian personnel loss and tank loss totals presented on the same homepage), stale or contradictory content on some long-form pages (an economy overview page carrying a "current status" assessment dated 26 October 2023 alongside a February 2026 update stamp, and an about page discussing 2024–2025 as future timeframes), and an about-page casualty claim attributed to a 2023 Reuters article that is in tension with the site's stated impartiality standards. The project depends on third-party data providers for nearly all of its statistics, and its stated revenue base of display advertising and donations is inherently modest and traffic-dependent. Ownership, legal entity, team identities and location are not disclosed in the available sources.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsThe platform published a versioned methodology page documenting its tiered source hierarchy, cross-referencing requirements, uncertainty labelling, revision policy, and editorial/sensitive-content standards.
Release of a press kit offering downloadable datasets (war-stats.json, api.json, feed.xml, sitemap.xml), pre-formatted APA/MLA/Chicago citation widgets, and embeddable iframe widgets for Russian losses, military aid, and refugee statistics, subject to attribution requirements.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Ukraine War Analyticsukraine-war-analytics.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Ukraine War Analytics do?
- Independent open-source web platform aggregating and analysing data on the Russia-Ukraine war for researchers and media.
- Who are Ukraine War Analytics's investors?
- Ukraine War Analytics's investors include Felicis Ventures.