Russia-Ukraine

What the project does

This repository is a data visualization that tracks and plots documented military equipment losses using records compiled by the Oryx documentation project. The author states the data only includes destroyed or captured equipment with photo or video evidence, so the true total is higher, and the work is presented as empirical rather than interpretive analysis. It is a method for rendering publicly recorded loss figures, not a commentary.

Data pipeline

Figures are drawn from a public Google Sheet updated daily, which itself is populated by a scraper that pulls from Oryx's site each day. The repository plots cumulative and daily losses with a generalized additive model smooth and a confidence band, and it separates losses by the two sides using red and blue markers. Annual and period specific pages break the timeline into chapters such as the 2022 invasion and later offensives.

Methodological caveats

The README explicitly notes the data is a lagging indicator dependent on when losses are discovered and documented, and it raises the concern that losses on one side may be undercounted because areas under that side's control are less likely to yield photo documentation. The analysis avoids applying modifiers to adjust the numbers and states any bias in the original data will be reflected in the plots. The project is MIT licensed and the snapshot shows 656 stars and 29 forks.

Editorial conclusion

The project is MIT licensed and reports 656 stars with 29 forks as of August 2026. It is an R based visualization of documented equipment losses sourced from the Oryx record, presented with explicit methodological caveats about undercounting.