Maxar collected a trove of new high-resolution satellite imagery showing the damage to Russian ammunition depots in western southern Russia. 📷@Maxar
Thread with much imagery.
Starting off with the before / after shots of the ammo storage buildings at the Oktyabrski depot.
Imagery of the destruction of probable missile cannisters at the Oktyabrski ammo depot.
At one location in the Toropets depot, a large crater nearly 82-meters wide is visible where there used to be a storage building and bunker. Additionally, train rail cars that were likely used to transport ammunition to the depots were damaged or destroyed at each location.
More images collected from Toropets.
More images collected from Toropets.
More images collected from Toropets.
Damage to material being offloaded from railcars at Toropets. Before vs after.
Destroyed railcars observed in the vicinity of the Toropets ammo depot.
Tikhoretsk*
This is in Krasnodar.
Tikhoretsk*
This is in Krasnodar.
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Ukrainian forces are making tactical gains NW of Verbove.
Ukrainian forces likely pinched off / are pinching off a tactical salient that they made NW of Verbove where Russian fortifications are notably less developed & not as well connected to communications.
Geolocated footage posted on September 7 shows Russian forces striking a new Ukrainian position in a treeline northwest of Verbove, indicating Ukrainian advances.
Satellite imagery collected on September 6 shows fires in a tree line ~ 1km northwest of the confirmed Ukrainian advance from the footage posted on September 6. This imagery indicates that either Ukrainian forces either advanced into here and were struck by Russians or that...
The new geolocated footage (h/t @moklasen) shows Ukrainian foot-mobile infantry of the 82nd Brigade, likely reconnaissance elements, operating just west of Verbove.
The new footage shows no evidence that these forces have heavy equipment behind the trench or dragon's teeth.
The absence of heavy equipment suggests infiltration, not a breach. The 82nd may have breached it, but that confirmation will come when we see larger units or heavy equipment beyond a small unit of foot mobiles.
Russian sources also claim that there has been no breach yet.