"I am personally interested that Putin would not win this war": The first interview of Oryx administrator

Yakub Yanovsky, who controls the platform along with a small team, gave the first interview about his work by NZZ. The Dutch Osint site of Oryx is dedicated to defensive analytics and the study of hostilities. Earlier, its administrators were analysts of Stein Mitzer and Jost Oleans, who previously worked in Bellingcat. Orix was created in 2013 and initially studied the war in Syria. Mitzer and Oliman also published a book about the DPRK Army.

The site gained international popularity due to its work during a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, when it began to calculate and monitor material losses based on visual evidence and open sources (OSINT) and social networks. The site administrator is Czech Yakub Yanovsky. He says he was always interested in the topic of war and weapons. But he began to deal with personal incentives. "I survived the Cold War only as a kid, but my family suffered from the Soviet occupation.

I am very personally interested in not winning this war," he says. Якуб зазначає, що за публікаціями уважно стежать в Україні, Росії та особливо на Заході. "Незліченні засоби масової інформації, зокрема, регулярно цитують наші дані.

Це, своєю чергою, впливає на рішення про озброєння урядів, що підтримують Україну. Якщо всім буде ясно, що поставлена зброя ефективна, ризик "втоми від війни" знижується, — зазначає він . However, most of the photos and videos are freely available on a variety of channels, especially in Telegram and X.

The military has the interest of presenting their "trophies" in public. This is done from pride, as well as to influence their and western population, "Yanovsky says. In order not to put the Armed Forces on the danger he publishes materials with a delay of several weeks. According to him, he was documented on the front line with his colleagues from 80 to 80 90 percent of all losses. For the rest of the devices, especially if they work from the second row, the proportion is, of course, lower.

We do not even identify smaller types of weapons than guns or drones, "Yakub notes. Speaking of the equipment used by Russia, the Oryx team notes that there are real rations. " Our data clearly show how outdated the Russian side . Some equipment could be obtained directly from the museum. More than half of the equipment that Russia is losing in Ukraine belongs to the Soviet era-until the 1940s and 1950s, "says the OSINT Research.

These platforms are often called" fake ", but direct threats were not received. " Pro-Russian propagandists Sometimes they are accused of fake news, but we can live with it. To some extent, we are protected by the fact that we are working in the territory of NATO, not in Ukraine or even in Russia, " - says Yakub. Recall that it became known earlier that the Russian military will fight on a movie requisite.