FrontlineFacts
Paste any war-related headline — like 'Russia captures Kostyantynivka' — and instantly see whether the claim is verified, contested, or contradicted by independent frontline mapping (ISW, DeepState, Ukrainian sources), with a side-by-side credibility breakdown.
News readers, students, and researchers trying to make sense of conflicting war reports
- Paste any territorial or capture claim → instant verdict (verified / contested / false) with sources
- Side-by-side view: Russian MOD video vs Ukrainian troop testimony vs independent mapper data
- Interactive map showing real-time frontline shifts versus officially claimed positions
- Daily 'claim of the day' classroom explainer for media-literacy courses
Russia's false July 3 capture claim for Kostyantynivka is the textbook case of unverified battlefield propaganda reaching English-language news; readers have no easy way to check such claims.
CNN, Wikipedia, RBC-Ukraine and USA Today all covered the Kostyantynivka false-claim case, showing real public interest, but Google Trends data was unavailable and the niche (war-specific frontline checks) is small relative to general fact-checking.Putin's false claim of the capture of one Ukrainian town - CNN ↗Battle of Kostiantynivka - Wikipedia ↗
General AI fact-checkers (Debunkit.ai, FactChecker App) exist and Google Fact Check Explorer aggregates Ukraine claims, but none specifically cross-reference war headlines against ISW + DeepState + Ukrainian frontline data side-by-side — a defensible narrow niche.Debunkit.ai - Instantly Verify if News and Facts are Real or Fake ↗Fact Check Explorer Results - Ukraine ↗
Direct competitors Debunkit.ai and FactChecker App are free; most war-related verification is done by non-profits (StopFake, AFP, USA Today) or news orgs — willingness-to-pay for a war-specific frontline checker is weak.DebunkIt.AI Review 2026 - Free NLP | PoweredByAI ↗FactChecker App - Verify Claims Instantly ↗
Strong while the Russia-Ukraine war continues and frontline maps update daily, but core use case collapses if conflict freezes or ends; methodology could extend to other conflicts but no evidence of demand there yet.DeepStateMAP | Map of the war in Ukraine ↗
DeepState and ISW publish public maps/updates that can be ingested; the hard part is normalizing geographic claims (e.g. 'Kostyantynivka captured') to map coordinates and handling the lag when claims appear before data updates — buildable but requires ongoing curation.DeepStateMAP | Map of the war in Ukraine ↗Home | Institute for the Study of War ↗