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Feb 25 4 tweets 2 min read
The below video showing a cluster munition canister from a BM-30 rocket has been geolocated to 50.3086824, 34.8723472, in the town of Okhtyrka, Sumy. Notably we have also geolocated it just 200m to the east of the kindergarten that was reportedly attacked
Currently there is not enough information to establish if the two are linked, but the location of the canister remains, and that it appears to have landed from the direction of the school, suggests this Russian cluster munition may be connected to the kindergarten attack.
We continue to seek information about this attack, in particular the remains of munitions at the attack site itself, and any rocket motors from BM-30 rockets in the same town.
As @CalibreObscura, the cluster rocket is from the 220mm BM-27 system, not the 300mm BM-30 system.

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Feb 27
Bellingcat has identified multiple examples of cluster munitions being fired into civilian areas of Ukraine, including residential areas, schools and hospitals.

bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…
Cluster munitions deploy a large number of smaller sub-munitions over a target, which then spread out and cover an area in explosions. They are often described as an indiscriminate weapon due to the inherently large area they affect.
In Ukraine we have seen examples of cargo rockets used by BM 27 & BM 30 multiple launch rocket systems. These cargo rockets carry the submunitions.

When they hit the ground, the cargo warheads and rocket motors can give an indication of the direction of origin of the rocket. Image
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Feb 27
The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort by @Cen4infoRes and the wider open source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine.

@BenDoBrown explains how it works bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown Given the sheer volume of content being posted online, Bellingcat (and others) will be helping verify and map incidents. The map itself can be accessed here: maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru…
@Cen4infoRes @BenDoBrown The map is publicly viewable on both desktop and mobile and, as of 24 February, had logged more than 570 items to give an up to date, detailed view of what is happening in Ukraine.
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Feb 26
We are seeking images of Uragan 9M27K and Smerch 9M55K cluster rocket and their submunitions from the current fighting in Ukraine, as well as videos of suspected cluster munition attacks. If you have any, reply with a link to the source if possible. ImageImageImage
Currently geolocated videos and photographs related to cluster munition use. Bucha, 50.546169, 30.205566
49.987345, 36.261194 Image
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Feb 24
If you're sharing videos and photographs from Ukraine with accountability in mind, please make an effort to share them with links to the source you're using, it greatly assists organisations who are verifying conflict incidents.
Wherever possible we're seeking to find where videos were posted originally, so we can understand the context they were originally posted in, and it helps us eliminate videos that are just old videos being reposted for clicks.
It also allows us to examine associated metadata, especially where videos have been shared on Telegram, which retains file metadata, unlike the majority of social media platforms.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 24
This video showing damage to civilian apartment buildings was filmed at 49.850727, 36.659762 in Chuhuiv, near an airport that was the likely target of the attack. Civilian casualties have been reported from the attack attributed to Russian forces.
One of the reported victims of the attack is shown below. We'll continue to collect evidence related to this attack on civilians:
More images from this attack via AFP, at least one death reported.
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Feb 23
New from Bellingcat and @the_ins_ru

An attack that made numerous Ukrainian government websites unreachable has been linked to GRU hackers. bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…
@the_ins_ru Independent threat researcher Snorre Fagerland, working in cooperation with Bellingcat and The Insider, identified a web service apparently serving as a command and control centre which has played a role in past cyber-attacks linked to Russian state interests.
@the_ins_ru The same website also hosted cloned copies of a number of Ukrainian government websites, including the main webpage of the Office of the President.
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