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Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The footage being shared from Ukraine is starting to look more and more like Syria.

A video shared by citizens of Kharkiv with @bbcrussian shows a part of an unguided MLRS rocket that fell through several floors of an apartment block.
A dashcam video, filmed 100 m from a children's hospital in Kharkiv (we confirmed the geolocation) shows what we believe is the impact of a cluster munition.

As no aircraft can be heard in the video, it was probably launched by a MLRS.
Earlier, @Michael1Sheldon geolocated a part of an MLRS cluster rocket in Bucha northwest of Kyiv, the site of heavy fighting earlier today.
This type of ammunition carries a multitude of explosive submunitions. It is by definition indiscriminate, so using them on a civilian area would constitute a war crime.

You and our colleagues of @bellingcat are monitoring these developments closely.

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Feb 26
The Russia-Ukraine war so far has had both heroic and horrific episodes.

This is perhaps the strangest of them: the story of how a Russian riot police convoy went to conquer Kyiv on its own. Image
The story is based on videos posted by Ukrainian officials and social media users, as well as testimonies of the policemen themselves.
t.me/armyofukraine/…
t.me/voynareal/9359 (warning: graphic!)
t.me/MoscowTimes_ru…
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On February 3, 80 riot policemen from Novokuznetsk in western Siberia set off to the regional capital of Kemerovo.

This was the day when Russian riot police and National Guard troops were on the move all over the country.

They arrived to Smolensk and crossed into Belarus.
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Feb 26
We have collected evidence of another Russian unit sustaining losses in Ukraine. This is the 96th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army, currently fighting on Kharkiv and also like Chernihiv axes.
Videos posted by Ukrainians show Rys and Typhoon-K armored cars with "96" on the doors, which might designate unit number.

Another video shows a PoW who claims to be from unit 52634 — which is the unit code for the 96th Brigade.

A photo shows captured papers with the same code. ImageImageImage
According to our source as well as open source evidence, the 96th Recon Brigade is not the only 1st Guards Tank Army unit sustaining losses in Ukraine.

Others include the 423rd Guards Motorized Regiment, whose soldiers were one of the first POWs showcased by Ukrainian forces Image
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Feb 25
For a second day in a row, Ukrainian civilians have been falling victim to Russia's invasion.

This graphic photograph shows bodies in front of a pre-school facility "Sonechko" in Okhtyrka, Sumy region (we have confirmed the geolocation).
The bombed civilian facility is 600m away from the base of Ukraine's 91st Operational Support Regiment.

Another video shows that an alley running between the regiment's base and Sonechko pre-school facility also was hit.
Okhtyrka's mayor Pavlo Kuzmenko reports that Sonechko ("Little Sun") was shelled with Uragan MLRS, which have a dispersal up to 1 km at a high distance.

Also today, Kharkiv was the target of heavy Smerch MLRS for a second day in a row.
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Feb 25
We've analyzed this video and we believe it is related to an incident where a Russian false flag saboteur group was intercepted and destroyed in the northern Kyiv neighborhood of Obolon.
The Strela-10 surface to air missile launcher seen in the video drives over a car, which can be seen in another video, showing a Russian Ural-4320 with a ZU-23-2 autocannon, surrounded by armed men. The latter video is described as false flag group arrest
Ukrainian officials have also claimed that a false flag group infiltrated Kyiv and was later destroyed, although we can't be sure this describes the same incident as seen in the video
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Feb 24
Today is the first day of Russia's full scale war against Ukraine.

The invading forces have made significant advances in the south and are close to reaching Kyiv in the north.

Most axes we have reported here have been activated.
citeam.org/order-of-battl…
Russia has hit Ukrainian military installations with air and missile strikes across the country.

Civilian buildings have been also hit, like this apartment block 300 m from Chuhuiv airbase.

Russian forces have indiscriminately employed unguided Smerch rockets in civilian areas.
In the southern town of Henichesk, taken earlier today, Russia's National Guard troops have apparently taken over occupation duties from regular military.
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Feb 21
Today, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, which handles Russia's border protection) announced that an unknown shell from the Ukrainian territory destroyed a border post 150 m from the border.

There is a problem with this allegation, though.
Per @ru_rbc's FSB source, the shell exploded near Scherbakovo, Rostov region. Independent geolocation confirms this.



The closest Ukrainian positions are >37 km away from the site.
@ru_rbc The only Ukrainian artillery systems that could conceivably fire at such a distance are heavy Smerch MLRS (or its Ukrainian modification "Vilha") and Pion self-propelled howitzers.

They would have caused much heavier destruction than seen in the video.
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