From the bodies strewn in the streets of Bucha to civilian victims of Russian shelling, from buildings struck by missiles to the environmental consequences of the conflict, few aspects of the war have escaped Ukrainians' determination to record, document and archive everything. There are now hundreds of such initiatives. And they are not limited to the current armed conflict with Russia: Countless projects are revisiting Ukraine's history, culture and arts, as well as its cuisine, wildlife and flora.

Ukrainians are not the first to be deeply committed to documenting their own war in real time. Over the past 15 years, driven by historical awareness, a thirst for information and hopes for justice – and thanks to new means of communication and technology – activists from the Arab Spring, Iranian protesters, besieged Syrians and now Gazans cut off from the world have pioneered the daily documentation of conflict. But Ukraine is undoubtedly reaching a new level never seen before in terms of scale.

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