The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has launched a digital archive of curated audiovisual news content documenting the war in Ukraine since February 2022.

The EBU Ukraine Archive, created in partnership with EBU Members and supported by numerous international funders, contains more than 30,000 curated and searchable video and audio reports, as well as verified social media content gathered through the Eurovision News Exchange. It is accessible on request to journalists, academics, legal experts, human rights investigators and others engaged in public interest work. This includes other archives collating information and footage about conflict in general and the Ukraine war in particular.

“At a time of rampant false information, we created the Ukraine Archive to capture and preserve facts in the public interest,” commented Liz Corbin, EBU Director of News. “The Archive is a living record of what has happened and a unique resource offering a window on events as they happened – the first draft of history.”

Pierre-Olivier Volet, Chair of the EBU News Committee, added: “This archive is designed to support the kind of serious, evidence-based work that underpins democracy. It reflects not only the facts on the ground, but also the people who saw, reported, and verified them.”

Developed and maintained by the EBU, the archive includes content contributed by public broadcasters across Europe and beyond from the moment of the full-scale invasion. The material is searchable by date, location and other details, and each item is tagged with at least one of 100 custom tags documenting human rights violations in armed conflict. This means journalists and investigators can search by specific war crime categories, making their task quick and simple.

Access to the archive is via online application.

The EBU Ukraine Archive has been available to EBU Members since February 2025 but today marks the last step before its broader release to external users.

In addition, the EBU Ukraine Archive Project also included these initiatives:

• Support for the EBU’s Ukrainian Member, Suspilne, to build archiving capacity and a network of regional archivist throughout Ukraine.
• Working with the Thomson Foundation to develop free training programmes for journalists and newsrooms on reporting and documenting war. This included how to ensure video and audio are properly preserved. The training is available in English, Ukrainian and Arabic.
• Establishing fellowships to support research into the Archive with three academic partners:  School of Journalism, Columbia University; School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University; and Danish School of Media and Journalism.

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