On a 250 km long frontline, I managed to map 12 000 russian 🇷🇺 and ukrainian 🇺🇦 artillery strikes thanks to the snow cover
With this map, I'll analyse with precision the current trends and next movements on the frontline as well as the location of the frontline
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The latest commercial satellite images (Sentinel-2) showed most of eastern Ukraine covered with snow, which is very useful.
Indeed, we can see every artillery and airstrike impacts, something we cannot see otherwise. I mapped 12 000 of them between Kostiantynivka and the Dnipro river, with two holes, the area around Novopavlivka/Ivanivka (some clouds) and the one north of Stepnohirsk and along the Dnipro, because there was no snow.
Disclaimer, this map is obviously not showing all the impacts, I may have missed some, and the ones in urban areas are a bit more difficult to map. Moreover, some of those impacts are in fact airstrikes, but it is a minority.
Let's start !
First, we can see 3 main areas of bombing : Pokrovsk-Dobrbropilla, Hulialpole-Ternuvate and Stepnohirsk.
There is one trend : Russia is putting a big effort to attack Orikhiv from both sides and to take Dobropilla in the first part of the year.
What we are calling the "Pretoria Peace Deal" now seems closer than never to belong to the past.
Already, 5 months after the deal between Tigray and Ethiopia (november 2nd 2022), a new war was starting, this time in Amhara, Ethiopia second most populated region.
The war in Tigray lasted 3 years. It saw the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Amhara special forces and Eritrean troops occupy most of Tigray before being humiliated by a massive TPLF counter-offensive.
The war ended in status quo, on the border of the state.
-Le F35 est très cher
-Sa maintenance est complexe
-Les Etats-Unis peuvent l'empĂŞcher de voler
-C'est un avion qui est très performant mais fragile, très couteux à faire voler…
It is the biggest victory for the SAF since they liberated the capital city a year ago. At the same time, RSF attempted to open a new front in Blue Nile.
Massive forces led by the 5th division of El Obeid, the 10th division of Abu Jubaynah as well as the brigades 53rd and 38th and joint forces entered today the city of Dilling in South Kordofan.
After a month long counter-offensive south of El Obeid, those forces took the Rapid Support Forces by surprise, pushed on open terrain between the Nuba mountains and reached Habila this morning.
After that, they continued their push and reached the city of Dilling, one of the two remaining encircled garrison (after most fell, apart from Kadugli, capital city of south Kordofan, still encircled.
Held by the 54th infantry brigade alone, the city stood 2.5 years.
Who are the actors, why are they fighting ? Is the conflict origine from money, gold, oil, power, religion or ethnicities ? Which foreign powers are involved ?
Here, you will find a general guide of the Sudan war :
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When did it start ?
On april 15th 2023. Where ? In Khartoum, the capital city, unlike previous conflicts.
Sudan was already partly at war before, discontinuously since 1983 (1983-2005, 2nd South Sudan war, 2003-2020, Darfur war, 2011-2020, South Kordofan and Blue Nile war).
Who is fighting :
The Sudanese Armed Forces :
The SAF are based in Khartoum and Port Sudan; they defend the state's borders and internal stability. Their leader is Al-Burhan, and the military commanders are heirs to the military-Islamist regime of Omar al-Bashir (1989-2019).