Datasets

A curated list of publicly available datasets for studying dis- & misinformation campaigns on social media in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Dataset NameSourceNumber of RecordsPeriod Covered
OSINT Tweets Dataset for the Russo–Ukrainian War (Jan 2022 – Jul 2023)Twitter/X2M January 2022 – July 2023
Exploring Crisis–Driven Social Media Patterns: A Twitter Dataset of Usage During the Russo–Ukrainian WarTwitter/X127.2M February 2022 – ongoing
Analyzing Russia’s Propaganda Tactics on Twitter Using Mixed Methods Network Analysis and NLP (Alieva, Kloo & Carley)Twitter/X6,125,244December 24, 2021 – January 24, 2023
TweetIntent@Crisis: Russian & Ukrainian Government–Affiliated Twitter Accounts Annotated with IntentTwitter/X17,000February 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023
Opponents and Proponents of the War in Ukraine in Russian Social Media (VKontakte)VKontakte10,551May 1, 2022 – January 6, 2023
Pro/Anti–Kremlin Telegram Channels DatasetTelegram5,227,413December 21, 2020 – April 30, 2023
Russian and Ukrainian War–Related Telegram Channels DatasetTelegram79,572,856September 22, 2015 – March 26, 2024
DFRLab: Inauthentic Telegram & Facebook Accounts Spreading Anti–Ukrainian NarrativesTelegram, Facebook580,000October 2024 – November 2024
RUWA Corpus: News Articles for Misinformation Detection in the Russia–Ukraine WarNews/Web16,526February 2022 – September 2022
Multilingual News Dataset about Ukraine 2022–2025News/Web120,617January 2022 – December 2025
A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo–Ukrainian WarNews/Web246,000February 2022 – August 2024
Detecting Divergent Language Use in Russian Media During the Russo–Ukrainian War News/Web1.7M February 2022 – September 2022
Unmasking Coordination: How Inauthentic Behavior Emerged and Diffused During the Russia–Ukraine War on TwitterTwitter/X685,491February 2022 – February 2024
Analyzing Digital Propaganda and Conflict Rhetoric: Russia’s Bot–Driven Campaigns and Counter–Narratives During the Ukraine CrisisTwitter/X4.5M January 2022 – November 2022
A Longitudinal Study of Italian and French Reddit Conversations Around the Russian Invasion of UkraineReddit3M+ February 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022
An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of UkraineTelegram5,318,446June 2015 – May 2023
Do Deepfakes Undermine Our Epistemic Trust? A Thematic Analysis of Tweets that Discuss Deepfakes in the Russian Invasion of UkraineTwitter/X4,869January 2022 – July 2022
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo–Ukrainian War on RedditReddit108,106January 1, 2022 – March 15, 2022
Characterizing and Detecting Propaganda–Spreading Accounts on TelegramTelegram17M+ January 2020 – October 2023
Information Control on YouTube During Russia’s Invasion of UkraineYouTube12,315,588January 24, 2022 – May 25, 2022
The Reach of Russian Propaganda & Disinformation in CanadaSurvey1,500May 12, 2022 – May 31, 2022
Democracy Perception Index 2023: Western support for Ukraine holds, but democracy at home is under pressureSurvey53,970February 7, 2023 – March 27, 2023
Ukraine Conflict Twitter DatasetTwitter/X70M+ February 2022 – June 2023
Prediction of People Sentiments on Twitter Using Machine Learning Classifiers During Russian–Ukrainian ConflictTwitter/X1,245,791February 24, 2022 – July 4, 2022
A Multi–Modal Dataset for Hate Speech Detection on Social Media: Case–study of Russia–Ukraine ConflictTwitter/X5,680February 22, 2022 – March 28, 2022
Detecting Human Rights Violations on Social Media during Russia–Ukraine WarTelegram2.3M February 24, 2022 – September 11, 2022
Public Expresses Mixed Views of U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of UkraineSurvey10,441March 7, 2022 – March 13, 2022
Online Networks of Support in Distressed Environments: Solidarity and Mobilization during the Russian Invasion of UkraineTwitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube383,000February 22, 2022 – April 28, 2022
Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis on Bangla Social Media Comments on Russia–Ukraine War Using TransformersYouTube10,861February 2022 – 2023
CrisisHateMM: Multimodal Analysis of Directed and Undirected Hate Speech in Text–Embedded Images from Russia–Ukraine ConflictTwitter/X, Reddit and Facebook4,700February 23, 2022 – March 3, 2023
Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of UkraineFacebook and Twitter/X19.5M January 1, 2022 – April 24, 2022
Differentiation and unity: A Cross–platform Comparison Analysis of Online Posts’ Semantics of the Russian–Ukrainian War Based on Weibo and TwitterWeibo and Twitter/X266,689February 17, 2022 – March 5, 2022
A deep learning–based sentiment analysis approach (MF–CNN–BILSTM) and topic modeling of tweets related to the Ukraine–Russia conflictTwitter/X192,915March 4, 2022 – May 23, 2022
Wartime Media Monitor (WarMM–2022): A Study of Information Manipulation on Russian Social Media during the Russia–Ukraine WarVKontakte,
Odnoklassniki, Telegram, Twitter/X, Facebook, LiveJournal, and YouTube
1.7M July 2022 – September 2022
Tweets in Time of Conflict: A Public Dataset Tracking the Twitter Discourse on the War between Ukraine and RussiaTwitter/X63M+ February 22, 2022 – March 8, 2022
Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of UkraineTwitter/X349,455February 2022 – July 2022
A Reddit Dataset for the Russo–Ukrainian Conflict in 2022Reddit306,482February 24, 2022 – May 29, 2022
Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operationsSurvey1,003Before February 2022
Remixing war: An analysis of the reimagination of the Russian–Ukraine war on TikTokTikTok62May 23, 2022 – June 12, 2022
Unveiling Global Narratives: A Multilingual Twitter Dataset of News Media on the Russo–Ukrainian ConflictTwitter/X1,524,832February 2022–May 2023
Russia–Ukraine Crisis Weibo (RUW) datasetTwitter/X and Weibo3.5M Last week of February 2022 – ongoing
UKRUWAR22: A Collection Of Ukraine–Russia War Related TweetsTwitter/X55,186February 24, 2022 – April 18, 2022
Twitter Dataset for 2022 Russo–Ukrainian CrisisTwitter/X1.6M February 24, 2022 – March 3, 2022
Social Media Sentiment Analysis Based On Russo–Ukrainian WarTwitter/X1.2M January 2022 – First week of March
Initial analysis on the Russo–Ukrainian War corpus on TwitterTwitter/X57.3M February 23, 2022 – April 3, 2022
VoynaSlov: A Data Set of Russian Social Media Activity during the 2022 Ukraine–Russia WarTwitter/X and VKontakte21M+ January 2021 – ongoing
Twitter Dataset on the Russo–Ukrainian WarTwitter/X57.3M February 24 2022 – ongoing
A Twitter Streaming Dataset collected before and after the Onset of the War between Russia and Ukraine in 2022Twitter/X8.7M February 17, 2022 – March 3, 2022
English tweets discussing an unverified report that Russian forces engaged in a chemical attack in Mariupol, UkraineTwitter/X246,189April 6 – 13, 2022

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