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May 4, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
How #OSINT works.
On May 1st, a video showing transport of agricultural equipment (see video) appeared.
All sources claimed that Kadyrov's Chechens stolen this equipment and the video was taken during the transport to the Chechnya.
We can see cars doing an escort for the transport.
Due to the fact that I'm not familiar with russian police cars (and with automotive;) I used Yandex image search for reverse image search (@brechtcastel is master here :). You can see the results in attached image. Image
So we know now that this is indeed russian police escort (car: Skoda Octavia).
Next issue is what is transported.
I can recognize:
-2 or 3 tractors John Deere,
-combine,
-2 seeders and some equipment I can't recognize and spare parts.
How can we say this is transport arriving from war area? "Z" letters on the trucks (see image), no visible license plates and also fact that transport has the police escort.
Let's go to geolocation. Image
As it was said, transport might have been arriving into Chechnya territory, so I started search from simple map analysis - route between Mariupol-Grozny (1st img).
As the hills can be seen in the video (2nd img) that suggest upland or mountain terrain. ImageImage
Next part of search was screening for appropriate place (hills relatively close to the road) and characteristic building on the right (see image). Image
During the search, I've finally found the appropriate building (see image) on the previously proposed road in the Baruski town, Republic of Ingushetia.
Geolocated as: Baruski town, Republic of Ingushetia, Russia.
Grid: 43.25707, 44.82187.
@GeoConfirmed ImageImage
Conclusions?
-Transport is moving east, in the direction of Chechnya.
-Features of transport suggest it may be equipment stolen from Ukraine.
-#OSINT and #GEOINT may be powerful tool for DIY investigations and fact-checking.
I wish You all good luck in your OSINT and fact-checking.

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Apr 26, 2022
My first thread:
Around April 18, the video of Ukrainian prisoners of war appeared on social media (see first screenshot).
This was no surprise that geolocation of that object is valuable. (1/11)
Next video appeared a day later (see second screenshot). The surroundings seemed to match the first video. Obviously, due to the fact that barbed wire (first video) and tower (second video) is visible it must be prison or a penal colony. (2/11)
On the same day video showing same facility appeared in RUS media. It gave more clues about the structure of penal colony. (smotrim.ru/article/2706278)
So how it was geolocated? (3/11)
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