On 23 July, Ukrainian forces struck the Daryivskyi bridge across the Ingulets river at #Daryivka, #Ukraine. Videos showed a pontoon bridge/barge providing an alternate crossing, with foliage used to camouflage the barge. 1/
Very high resolution imagery now shows a more complete picture of what was going on. Here's an overview showing the pontoon, damage, and significant Russian forces dug in on the eastern bank. 4/
First we can see the ~7 impacts in detain, spread out in about 20m intervals, with one cluster of 3 impacts together. 5/
We can clearly see the pontoon barge parked just a few hundred meters downstream, including the trees and bushes used as ridiculous camouflage. 6/
Especially interesting, thanks to the very high resolution Pleiades Neo imagery, we can identify at least 45 Russian military vehicles, many entrenched, in defensive positions to secure the east side of the River. 7/
The area just north of the intersection seems to be a base of operations. 8/
Finally, the quality of imagery from @AirbusSpace Pleiades Neo is really impressive. At 0.3m resolution, we can sometimes even read an individual "Z" marking on a truck.
Comparing 24 and 27 July, we can see the Russians built up the bridge head on both sides of the river. 10/
Looks like the Russians finished creating a barge bridge over the #Dnipro near #Kherson in the past 24 hours. Imagery from Oct 18 show a barge pushing the last parts into place at 0814 UTC. This allows Russia to resupply faster or to evacuate quickly. It's also an easy target.🤔
@GeoConfirmed Barge bridge complete at #Kherson on 18 October. Last barge being placed at 46.6658 32.7206.
And on the 17th there was more activity of Russian military vehicles waiting while others crossed by ferry. Same waiting location in a field around 46.7 32.8, just north of Prydniprovs'ke, east of #Kherson. Lots of trucks headed away from Kherson.
Since Aug, 70km of a natural gas pipeline was laid between #Melitopol and Marynivka, #Zaporizhia Oblast, #Ukraine. This will likely connect to #Berdyansk. Melitopol has been without gas for months. The connection could be complete within the next few weeks. @GeoConfirmed
A KML version of the pipeline trace can be downloaded here for import into your favorite mapping tools. This was created based on satellite imagery from August and September 2022. drive.proton.me/urls/TES5W9RE8…
The occupation government in #Luhansk, #Ukraine is pushing people to a telegram channel to get info about the referendum. Good #OSINT feed? t.me/budem_zhit 🤔
Apparently the LPR occupation authorities need to take a break while counting the ballots...
"The Department of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic reports that during the period of the referendum, the departments of the military commissariat will not work."
Situation around #antonovskiybridge in #Kherson hasn't changed. Sep 15 images show the ferries in use nearby, and empty barges. But... 🧵 1/
Looking back at radar and optical imagery since Sep 6 we can see many boats, some confirmed as pontoon ferries, operating east of the rail bridge near #Kherson. Here's a map with the locations plotted on different dates. Where does the ferry land? 🤔2/
Looking at imagery over #Kherson for 31 Aug we can see more Russian military vehicle movement than ever before. In this first image, we can see ~20 vehicles on the pontoon ferries transiting in each direction near 32.8035 46.6614.🧵 1/
11x Russian military vehicles waiting at 46.6442 32.8161 to move up the queue towards the military ferry across the #Dnipro 2/
16x Russian military vehicles queuing at 46.6287 32.8075. 3/
Major movement of Russian equipment identified in 25 August 2022 imagery near #Kherson crossing the #Dnipro river. About 100 military vehicles seen moving in imagery, mostly northwards toward Kherson, at 08:48 UTC (11:48 Kyiv time) on 25 August. 1/
At the edge of the image, we can see a convoy of at least 40 military vehicles waiting to move northward near the intersection at 46.6439 32.8159. 2/
10 more Russian military vehicles wait at the military pontoon ferry landing point at 46.6614 32.8037 3/