Thread by @sakkesarjakoski

It's harvest season in Southern Ukraine🇺🇦 but agricultural activity has largely halted in areas most affected by the fighting.

The impact is so severe that it can be clearly seen from space🛰️ Can you spot it?

🧵 #OSINT #eochat

Recently harvested fields are seen in light brown in this #Sentinel2 image from Kherson region;
a distinctly darker belt is seen around the line of contact, where harvesting has been impossible.

This is what it looks like up close.
Large swaths of crops have also burned as a result of artillery fire.

More than 5000 km2 of what is mostly prime agricultural land has been affected on the Kherson frontline alone.
It's sure to have an effect on the dire global #foodsecurity situation

Images from @CopernicusEU
and accessed via @sentinel_hub

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