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Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
newest satellite imagery of Russian deployments from 📸 Maxar (from Feb. 18). Images 1-4: troop positions, armor, helicopters, field hospitals near Lake Donuzlav, Novoozernoye, Crimea. ImageImageImageImage
Image 5-9: (from Feb. 15) newly arrived helicopter unit, related infrastructure at Millerovo airfield, just 16 kilometers from Ukrainian border. ImageImageImageImage
(these caught my attention because I was in Blahovishchenka, the Ukrainian village closest to the airfield, earlier this month. Farmers used to be able to drive their crops to be milled, or sold, in Millerovo. No longer)
Images 10-13: (from Feb. 14) Su-25 aircraft parked at the Luninets airfield, Belarus. Also an S-400 air-defense unit. ImageImageImageImage

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Feb 21
⚡️In phone call with Macron and Scholz, Putin said he intended to sign "in the near future" a decree recognizing the independence of separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk. According the Kremlin: The French and German leaders "expressed their disappointment with this development." ImageImage
maybe "in the near future" leaves some wiggle room still?
Speaking in a live TV address, Putin is ... now offering a history lecture of the Ukrainian state.
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Feb 21
new satellite imagery of Russian deployment from 📸Maxar: before and after images from BTG forward position near Soloti, Russia, NE of Ukraine border. Images 1-2: taken Feb. 13. Images 3-4: taken Feb. 20 ImageImageImageImage
Images 5-6: armored rifle battalion near Soloti, Russia; battalion moving south near Soloti. (taken Feb. 20) ImageImage
Images 7-10: troop, helicopter deployment near Valuyki, Russia, south of Belgorod, about 15 kilometers north of Ukraine border (taken Feb. 20) ImageImageImageImage
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Feb 20
At Ukraine's Stanytsia Luhanska crossing, where only pedestrians are allowed to cross to and from the separatist-held city of Luhansk, a stream of people today, many evacuating children, described growing fear and confusion. Not much interest in this beekeeper's wares today Image
This older couple said they were moving out of Luhansk completely (they insisted it wasn't b/c of war) Because only pedestrians are allowed, they had to load all their belongings onto 11 carriage-wagons and push them across the border. (They even brought the pickled tomatoes) ImageImage
Most of those crossing at midday Sunday were women, with young children. Iryna was leaving with her two children, 7 and 2. Asked about the near-nightly explosions heard in the city, she said quietly: “We try not to talk about it in front of the children.” Photo by @MaryanKushnir Image
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Feb 19
Six-year-old Zhenya plays on what remains of the school playground in the town of Novoluhansk. Ukraine. "Pretty much everyone has left. But they left a long time ago," his father Serhiy says. "Are we scared? No, we've been living with this for 8 years now. And where would we go?" Image
Novoluhanske is in the part of Luhansk Oblast that is controlled by the Kyiv government, not Russia-backed separatists. It's just a few kilometres to the line of control separating the two sides.
And about 30 minutes after interviewing Serhiy on the playground, separatists started shelling forward positions outside of town. (122 mm most likely).
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Jan 12
Speaking about today's Russia-NATO talks, @MID_RF DFM Alexander Grushko says NATO's goal is to contain Russia; "NATO's behavior creates unacceptable risks for Russia Federation."
@MID_RF Grushko: "аs of today, there is no positive agenda with NATO."
@MID_RF Grushko: Russia explicitly stated ... that further degradation of the situation will lead to "the most severe and unpredictable consequences for European security."
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Jan 12
@DeputySecState: "today was a truly remarkable expression of the power of diplomacy. Thirty sovereign nations spoke separately as NATO allies, and also spoke as one."
@DeputySecState Sherman: "NATO allies spoke in complete unity in support of a set of critical international principles: that all countries must be able to choose their own foreign policy orientation and that soverignty and territorial integrity are sacrosanct."
@DeputySecState Sherman: "NATO has never expanded through force, coercion, or subversion. It is a country's sovereign choice to come to NATO and say it wants to join."
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