A rare break in the clouds.
Yesterday we got a wide open sat image over Kyiv region.
2025 was a La Nina year. The snow swept landscape is the result. We're approaching a period where opportunity arises - a window that opens and closes, which may be wider this year ⬇️
This is something I've been pondering lately.
In 2023, the discord leaks happened - a treasure trove of information was leaked to the public. Most focused on the reported casualties in the usual pissing match, but there were all kinds of interesting datapoints in it - and many more pages than what were shown in the media.
One page was a timeline paired with a map, showing a small window of time between muddy periods where the ground freezes - a state the page says is favourable to vehicle movement - it used a set of color-coded lines to indicate when that region reached that state.
From a game perspective, this brings up an interesting prospect.
Jun 7, 2025 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
@clement_molin has rightly pointed out what we can see from space - but there is an interpretation of this he has missed. Something the evidence has suggested for a while now that won't be popular with either side.
Let's discuss 🧵/1
/2 Clement shows the defined line of fields 'returning to nature' and infers this is a result of the fighting.
But that's not quite right. These fields are the result of farmers not planting them - an important point with implications that are hard to ignore
