It's been months in the making, but it's finally ready. In an interactive article, we provide an entirely new view of the Ukraine war.
Using satellite-based systems, we calculated the intensity of fighting and degree of physical destruction in every corner of the country. As part of it, I developed a machine learning algorithm that uses data on abnormal heat events to detect over 14,000 instances of plausible fighting since the war began.
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