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The Russians have been broadcasting their movements and operations over open radio. Anyone with a HAM radio can listen to it, even online. I'm recording the most significant conversations broadcast over specific frequencies.

I hope this is useful for journalists or other people cataloging the war.

I made the site last night and I plan to improve it a bunch more too. Thanks for any feedback.

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I’m surprised they don’t encrypt their transmissions? Surely even Russia has radios with automatic functions, etc., widely distributed among their forces.

This is likely an ancillary group that has not been extensively trained and didn’t prepare for having encrypted communications. They’re defaulting back to open air transmissions, and everywhere they go they’re getting ambush and completely destroyed because, surprise, they’re broadcasting every move.

Are you sure these aren’t spoofed by EW units to lure Ukrainian units into traps?

Yes we’ve been tracking this and it doesn’t seem likely. It hasn’t looped, or repeated, and it’s chaotic as all hell with the signal constantly getting jammed.

Sometimes people play patriotic songs over the frequency to troll them. I’ve never seen anything like this before.

Just talked to someone from Belingcat (I think) and they said to keep doing it and they found it very important.

Please consider uploading these audio datasets to the Internet Archive when the conflict ends.

That’s where they are hosted now unless you mean a different archive site.

Nope, that’s the one. I didn’t click through to see you were linking directly to the item links at the IA. Thank you!

Where is the link to access the website?

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