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Carlo Lippold, Ellen Hoffmaster🔎 OSINT | Geopolitics | War Updates | Satire | Poetry 🔥 Unmasking corruption, exposing hidden power plays, and tracking the war in Ukraine, through investigative analysis, frontline reports, sharp satire, and poetry forged in resilience. Subscribe NOW
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The OSINT Field Kit: 77 Free Tools to Check What Really Happened
A photo or a video appears online, and the first question should always be the same: is this real? The tools to answer it are free, public and easier to learn than most people think. What is usually missing is knowing which tool answers whi...
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My name is Carlo Lippold. I first came to Ukraine in the summer of 2022 as a volunteer from the Netherlands. Eighteen missions later I stopped going back and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where I now serve as a drone operator and NCO....
One Entrance Fewer
I. Inventory
A house of four storeys
has four storeys
and a number of entrances
that nobody outside the house remembers
until one of them is gone.
This week the counting
is done by people in helmets
who never lived there...
Kyiv and Kharkiv Civilians Under Fire as Ukraine Strikes Russian Radar and Supply Networks
🕕 Reporting window: 18.10.2026 18:00 → 20.10.2026 06:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
🔥 Russia keeps throwing bodies at the front. Ukraine keeps turning expensive Russian military hardware into scrap metal. And the Kremlin’s rear-area logistics are...
Two New Books: 101 Cases of Russia’s Shadow War and an OSINT Casebook from Ukraine
Dear readers,
I am proud to announce that two new books are now available on Amazon.
Many of you have followed these investigations here on Enlighten the Day. The books go much further. They contain more cases than the newsletter ever car...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
What started with reporting on the war in Ukraine became my center of gravity. I now combine OSINT reporting and NAFO volunteering with creative writing—satire, novels, and essays—supported by a logistics/supply-chain toolkit.
Standing with Ukraine became standing in Ukraine. I publish daily reports from Ukraine, as well as bring a fictional universe to life with tales all their own.
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