Sample of posts on X about the war in Ukraine with metaphorical content

The event selected for the analysis is the war in Ukraine. The collected and analysed sample consists of 743 posts, all of which include metaphors manually retrieved from the hashtags #IStandWithUkraine (526 posts) and #IStandWithRussia (217 posts) found on the social network X around six important or significant events in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia from February to May 2022: the beginning of the war; the occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant; the Bucha massacre; the Kramatorsk railway station attack; the sinking of the Moskva; and the Mariupol theatre airstrike.