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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

‘Our mission is to expose the truth’: Ukraine’s female data warrior on the frontline of the information war

Smoke rises from a building in Severodonetsk, in Ukraine’s Donbas region

(Picture: Getty Images)

Many miles from the frontline in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Nataliya Mykolska and her team are fighting a different war. Every day, members of her “data battalion” sift through footage of some of the most gruesome atrocities committed by the Russian army to ensure the world “knows the truth” about what is happening in her country.

Dattalion was set up by Nataliya just four days after the beginning of Russia’s invasion on February 24. A former businesswoman, she fled Kyiv for Lviv with her two children as tanks crossed into central Ukraine.

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