information Activist, focus Ukraine | news aggregation tracking the Russian War against Ukraine
# Who
> My name is Ben, supporting Ukraine from Belgium, I’m a Solution Architect with 20 years of experience with information monitoring, automation, building tailored custom monitoring solutions on different platforms.
## When
On the 24th of February, I dropped everything I was doing to support Ukraine with information amplification, sourcing of good information sources, dashboards, after an initial deep dive into Telegram from mobile and manual translations, I wanted to find a solution to **ease the pain of following the invasion of Ukraine**, my first idea was to use Google Translate to ease translation process and [provide the resulting output on the open web](https://amplifyukraine.eu) without the need of a telegram account.
> This quickly evolved to a state where I’m able to host the [translation content along with the original context.](https://ruprop.ukrainewararchive.eu/)
## How
This first iteration evolved into the current set of [tools displayed on the front-page](https://osintukraine.com/), basically pushing the translations to different Discords, Telegram and [Mastodon](https://embed.osintukraine.com) and other platforms with the intent to facilitate access, searching and archiving for **different reasons** :
## Why
1. **To eliminate the language barrier issue** as much as possible with the current state of machine translation, I still remember 2014 and how the invasion of Crimea & Donbass left Ukraine voiceless.
2. Provide **a solution for** [**newsrooms,**](https://rss.osintukraine.com) **journalists, activists and basically everyone to have an easier access to this information** for certainly, one of the defining moment of our generation in Europe and the global impact the War on Ukraine unleashed.
3. **Hunt for Russian Disinformation** narratives and war crimes with the intent to archive it outside big platforms
4. Find **intelligence signal in the ongoing cyberwar leaks** and operations to disrupt Putin and the system he controls to wage war on Ukraine.
5. **Pressure** European capitals to **not concede a pre-cooked defeat with Putin at the cost of Ukraine integrity**.
6. **Pressure Western Governments** to actually deliver their **Help to Ukraine**
7. **Boycott Amnesty International** until the organization retract the “report” and formally apologies to Ukraine.
8. **Put the Media under pressure for not covering Ukraine**, putting constantly the aggressor propaganda instead of the impact of the war against Ukraine.
9. **Pressure Western Governments** **and allies** to Officially designate **Russia as a Terrorist State.**
10. **Weapons for Ukraine** because a genocidal war from a Terrorist State does not get stopped by wishful thinking for peace.
Devops [OSINTukraine](https://osintukraine.com) | Good Trouble | Social Justice |
Active on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/benborges.xyz)
and [Mastodon](https://phanpy.osintukraine.com) [My Account](https://osintua.eu/@benb)
OSINTukraine project tools : Automated DeepL Translations from telegram
https://osintukraine.com
## Contact
[email](mailto:cyberbenb@protonmail.com)
(he/him)
