The EBU has launched an extensive digital archive of curated audiovisual news content documenting the war in Ukraine since February 2022.

The Ukraine Archive, created in partnership with EBU Members and supported by numerous international funders, contains more than 30,000 curated and searchable video and audio reports, as well as verified social media content gathered through the Eurovision News Exchange.

It is accessible on request to journalists, academics, legal experts, human rights investigators and others engaged in public interest work. This includes other archives collating information and footage about conflict in general and the Ukraine war in particular.

'At a time of rampant false information, we created the Ukraine Archive to capture and preserve facts in the public interest,' said Liz Corbin, EBU Director of News. 'The Archive is a living record of what has happened and a unique resource offering a window on events as they happened – the first draft of history.'

Pierre-Olivier Volet, Chair of the EBU News Committee, said: 'This archive is designed to support the kind of serious, evidence-based work that underpins democracy. It reflects not only the facts on the ground, but also the people who saw, reported, and verified them.'

The archive, developed and maintained by the EBU, includes content contributed by public broadcasters across Europe and beyond from the moment of the full-scale invasion onward. The material is searchable by date, location and other details, and each item is tagged with at least one of 100 custom tags documenting human rights violations in armed conflict. This means journalists and investigators can search by specific war crime categories, making the task quick and simple.

Access to the archive is possible following an online application, though users must first acquire an EBU log-in before they can ask to access selected materials. If they then want to publish or reuse any content, they must submit a request to the EBU identifying the needed material. The EBU will then clear it with the original broadcaster.

The EBU Ukraine Archive has been available to EBU Members since February 2025 but today marks the last step before its broader release to external users.