Making open data on Ukraine accessible

The Russo-Ukrainian war is the largest in Europe since 1945. Digitisation and connectivity have also made it the most documented.

Units post hundreds of videos of drone strikes. General staffs, defence ministries, and local authorities publish regular reports. Hundreds of volunteers around the world gather, geolocate and classify thousands of data points about Russia’s war. Russia itself is far more closed, but even its releases hint at trends. All of this data comes with caveats. It is still enough to assemble a clearer picture of the war, and of the society behind it.

Visua.no gathers that data, structures it, and makes it easy for researchers and journalists to use. Every chart updates automatically, as often as its source publishes. Every source and every processing step is documented.

Reliable data gives a clearer and broader view of trends in the war and society. It also helps to avoid propaganda influence. In the end, quality research and reporting are in the best interest of Ukraine.

The project is developed and maintained by Pavlo Krasnomovets in Oslo, Norway. The site is programmed with Claude Code. Krasnomovets writes the copy and makes every editorial decision.

He has been working as a journalist in Ukraine for 10 years, most recently as an editor covering technology business at Forbes Ukraine.

In Norway, he spent one year covering the Russo-Ukrainian war at Aftenposten and developing a prototype for data fetching and visualisation of some charts and data sources you see on Visua.no. The project was nominated by Aftenposten for Data-SKUP and received grant support from the Fritt Ord Foundation.

Since 2025, Krasnomovets has worked as an assistant researcher at the Program for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Institute for Defence Studies of the Norwegian Defence University College.

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