Look for Your Own

[3] The project was incentivized by the fact that Russia's Ministry of Defense has given no details of any military losses at first[4] and has omitted the actual number of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the territory of Ukraine later.

As of 13 March, more than 12,000 Russian servicemen were reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to have been killed,[12] and more than 700 to be held captive.

[13] On 27 February, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine announced the creation of a special Internet project aimed at helping relatives and friends of the dead or prisoners to find or identify them.

It said the project could be interpreted as violating the provisions of the Geneva Conventions which state that governments must "protect prisoners of war from insults and public curiosity".

[22] On 2 May 2022, the visual arts magazine Tohu published an article by artist Chana Anushik Manhaimer called "Ищи Своих / Look for Your Own".

In this visual essay, the artist exhibited numerous watercolor paintings based on hard-to-watch images from the "Look for Your Own" channel, accompanied by a text.