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I'm thinking about Jess Ogden's paper about archiving Tumblr as ArchiveTeam races to archive the Ukrainian web:
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/archiveteam-warrior-ukraine-websites-internet-russia-cyberattacks
One of the interesting factors with archiving the Ukraine web that is mentioned in the in passing in the inputmag article is that there are some risks involved in making the information about who is selecting what, and doing the archiving, because it could make them a target for Russian cyberattacks. I think this is a real risk to be honest.
It appears as if all the embassy websites in Ukraine have been knocked offline.
For example here is the French Embassy in Ukraine website in IA's Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/*/france.mfa.gov.ua which you can see was collected by ArchiveTeam regularly and appears to now be offline? https://france.mfa.gov.ua/
I did a little poking around and noticed that these Embassy websites are hosted at Adamant in Kiev, who recently announced on FB that they were under attack (DDoS):
Who knows if these sites will come back, so this is important work that ArchiveTeam mobilized, it looks like at the beginning of the year?
The Ukrainian National Archives website is now offline:
In fact 463 out of 1387 Ukrainian government websites (identified via Wikidata) appear to be offline:
https://github.com/edsu/gov-ua/blob/main/data.csv
There are certainly some false positives in here from websites that were not available prior to the invasion.