A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Dikshya Mohanty, Taisiia Sabadyn, Jelwin Rodrigues, Chenlu Wang, Abhishek Kalugade, Ritwik Banerjee


Abstract
We present DNIPRO, a corpus of 246K news articles from the Russo-Ukrainian war (Feb 2022 – Aug 2024) spanning eleven outlets across five nation-states (Russia, Ukraine, U.S., U.K., China) and three languages. The corpus features comprehensive metadata and human-evaluated annotations for stance, sentiment, and topical framing, enabling systematic analysis of competing geopolitical narratives. It is uniquely suited for empirical studies of narrative divergence, media framing, and information warfare. Our exploratory analyses reveal how media outlets construct incompatible realities through divergent attribution and topical selection without direct refutation of opposing narratives. dnipro empowers empirical research on narrative evolution, cross-lingual information flow, and computational detection of implicit contradictions in fragmented information ecosystems.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.512
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
6452–6471
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-512
DOI:
10.63317/5ecxdux9s9ft
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Cite (ACL):
Dikshya Mohanty, Taisiia Sabadyn, Jelwin Rodrigues, Chenlu Wang, Abhishek Kalugade, and Ritwik Banerjee. 2026. A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6452–6471, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War (Mohanty et al., LREC 2026)
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