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Ukraine: U.S. satellite images already informing Russian strikes? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-08
I don't usually do quick hits, but this just in from The Atlantic seems maybe worth it.
Partially under paywall. But some can be read.
Here are a few of the datapoints.
...Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. But the suspicious cases have added up, and because many satellite-imagery companies offer a backlist of archived images, marked with dates and coordinates, it’s possible to browse tens of thousands of images taken of Ukraine and notice suggestive patterns. In the week before April 2, 2022, about a month after Russia’s initial invasion, images of a remote airfield outside Myrhorod, Ukraine, were requested from American companies at least nine times. Myrhorod is not a particularly interesting place, apart from that airfield. On April 2, missiles landed there. Satellite imaging has preceded strikes in urban areas as well: In Lviv, just before March 26, 2022, someone tasked a satellite with looking at a factory used for military-armor production. It, too, was struck. In late January of this year, someone commissioned a commercial-satellite company to take fresh images of Kyiv, just before the city was hit by a missile barrage....[free read ends here]
To be clear, these are images provided by private companies. I'm not sure if those companies are named in the full article.
Very concerning, especially as it may have been going on for some time....meaning Ukraine has been forced to in effect fight uphill for most of the war.
And now, trump has forbidden sharing such images with Ukraine, putting the defenders at a worse disadvantage than before against the unprovoked invasion.
Which really is betrayal of the deepest dye; but you knew that.
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