NGOs & humanitarian orgs
Field teams, local staff and logistics operating in or near contested areas, aid hubs and critical infrastructure – where “we’ll improvise” is no longer acceptable.
UKRAINE FRONTLINE BRIEF
Ukraine frontline safety & CBRN risk brief for teams who actually deploy into Ukraine.
A compact, conservative brief that links a simple 1–3 risk scale to concrete protection postures and minimum kit standards for your teams on the ground.
What’s actually inside the Ukraine brief
No 80-page deck, no vague dashboards. A short, dense brief that connects locations, roles, risk levels and protection.
Structure
- 1. Executive summary – what changed, what matters this cycle, and what you should do differently.
- 2. Threat landscape – kinetic patterns, targeting of cities and infrastructure, CBRN-relevant scenarios.
- 3. Regional risk levels (1–3) – simple bands per city / corridor relevant to your footprint.
- 4. Protection posture by level – who you send, minimum kit, and what becomes non-negotiable.
- 5. 3–6 month outlook – plausible developments that would change your posture.
Questions it helps you answer
- Which locations are Level 1, 2 or 3 for our teams?
- Can we justify sending this role to this place, at this time, with this kit?
- Where should we draw hard lines – “we do not go there, with these people, under these conditions”?
- If the situation shifts, what are the first decisions we should revisit?
Who this brief is – and is not – for
If your involvement in Ukraine is limited to commentary and donations, you do not need this. If you carry legal and moral responsibility for people on the ground, you probably do.
Newsrooms & media
Editors, bureau chiefs and security advisors assigning crews to frontlines, borders and nuclear-relevant sites – who need a clear trace from risk level to kit.
Security & specialist teams
Protective teams and in-house security who already have strong procedures, but want a conservative external lens to compare against their own threat picture.
How we build the Ukraine brief
No magic feed, no secret map. Disciplined use of open-source information, visible damage, field feedback and physics.
- Open-source first. Reputable media, official releases, think-tank work, satellite-visible damage and credible incident reporting.
- Field-informed. Where possible, anonymised feedback from people operating in and around the areas we are writing about.
- Simple levels. Internal 0–3 scoring for likelihood, impact and vulnerability, compressed to Level 1–3 bands.
- Direct to kit. Each level maps to concrete protection postures and minimum kit – not vague “high / medium / low”.
- Conservative. Low-probability, high-impact scenarios – especially around nuclear and other hazardous sites – are explicitly considered.
“Our job is not to impress you with data. Our job is to make it harder for normalisation and wishful thinking to pass as ‘professional judgement’.”
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Pricing & updates
We keep pricing simple. You pay for clarity, not volume.
One-off tailored brief
Scoped by number of locations and roles. One 6–10 page PDF, tailored to your footprint, with an optional short call to walk through the logic and how to use it inside your organisation.
Quarterly subscription
Updated every 3 months with a fresh view of the kinetic and CBRN-relevant picture, revised risk levels and any changes to recommended protection postures.
Payment can be handled via conventional invoices or card. If you are exploring agent-level access and AI-native payments, we can discuss this explicitly.
Tell us about your footprint in Ukraine
The more specific you are, the more precise and honest we can be. If we do not think a tailored brief is a good use of your resources, we will say so directly.