NPR features the Atlantic Council report Hiding in Plain Sight in an article about how VICE News is helping to confirm Russia’s direct involvement in Ukraine:
Ostrovsky’s new documentary, Selfie Soldiers, chronicles his journey in the footsteps of Bato Dambaev, who he’d confirmed was enlisted in the Russian military. He then contacted Dambaev directly.
The film follows up on recent work by the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C., think tank that issued a report relying on open-source information to track and verify locations where photos and videos of Russian soldiers and equipment have been taken in Ukraine.
“I wanted to find any way to be able to confirm what pretty much everybody already believes, which is that the Russian government has been directly involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine,” Ostrovsky tells NPR’s Arun Rath.