Why I made this dataset

On the 24th of February Russia has invaded Ukraine.

Despite the fact that there were lots of speculations about the probable invasion in the press, it came as a complete shock for me as for many other Russians. It is so disgusting to start a full-scale war in the 21 century, so it was just unimaginable, no one talked about it seriously at that time. Many of us have friends and family members in Ukraine, others just want to be a part of the civil cosmopolitan world. How could our government so gruesomely attack Ukraine, destroying the lives in both countries?

But maybe it wasn't? I want to see the evolution of the discussion around Ukraine and Russia. So I parsed quite a big number of tweets. Maybe some of you will find it useful as well.

How did I collect the data.

• max 5000 for the day
• I used these words for the search ['ukraine war', 'ukraine troops', 'ukraine border', 'ukraine NATO', 'StandwithUkraine', 'russian troops', 'russian border ukraine', 'russia invade' ]
• for each search, I created the separate CSV
• dates: from 2022 - 01 - 01 to 2022 - 03 -06

Format

The dataset is available as separate CSVs files.

License

As this data was collected from Twitter, its use must abide by the Twitter Developer Agreement. Most notably, the display of individual tweets should satisfy requirements.