Mapping Lithuania's OSINT ecosystem
15 organisations shaping Lithuania's analytical community (2024–2026)
Lithuania is one of the few countries where open-source intelligence (OSINT) is no longer confined to intelligence services. Instead, it has evolved into a collaborative ecosystem bringing together government institutions, think tanks, investigative journalists and volunteers.
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 accelerated this shift. Lithuanian researchers redirected their efforts, started to adopt Ukrainian approaches to defence-focused analysis and scaled up investigations into the financial networks supporting Russia's war effort.
This report is the first comprehensive overview of Lithuania's OSINT ecosystem for a Ukrainian-speaking audience.
What's inside
The report examines 15 organisations across four key areas:
- military OSINT and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT);
- countering disinformation and information security;
- investigating sanctions evasion.
For each area, the report outlines the organisations' methodologies, data sources and the end users of their analysis.
«Many of the projects that Ukraine is only now beginning to explore have already been implemented, tested and evaluated in Lithuania. This makes the report not only a source of inspiration, but also a practical guide to organisations whose partnerships can help develop ideas and support their successful implementation»,
— Daria Verbytska, Terrecon's CEO
Author: Daria Verbytska, Terrecon's CEO
Consultant: Yevheniia Fedotova, Vice President of the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine
This report was prepared with the support of Terrecon.
"Mapping Lithuania's analytical ecosystem" is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme