Kostiantyn Nechyporenko is a researcher with the Kyiv Independent's War Crimes Team. He has previously worked as a producer/newsroom coordinator at Hromadske and as an analyst at Suspilne. The events of the large-scale invasion and the need to document the crimes of the Russian military and its proxies fueled Kostiantyn's interest in OSINT. Kostiantyn got his Master's degree in sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.