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Mar 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Satellite imagery of Port-au-Prince, captured on March 14, shows the deteriorating conditions in Haiti's capital due to ongoing gang violence. This image (wide and crop) show roadblocks, burning debris and trash blocking Rte de Delmas near the city's main hospitals. Image: @Maxar
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Image Smoke can be seen rising near St. Francois de Sales hospital, in Port-au-Prince, March 14, 2024. Image: @Maxar. A unified front of gangs forced Haiti's prime minister to resign. More: nytimes.com/2024/03/14/wor…
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Feb 16 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
The Biden admin has hailed its efforts to restrict Iran's oil revenue — and its ability to fund proxy militias. But lax government oversight allowed deceptive tankers to move $2.8 billion worth of oil, all with American insurance. Our visual investigation: nyti.ms/3I0dQOr Since this investigation — with @BlackiLi, @_neilbedi, @ajcardia and @bottidavid — relied heavily on openly available online sources and tools, I wanted to give some insights in our reporting process below.
Aug 1, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Just moments ago, reports of yet another drone attack in Moscow (early hours of August 1), making it the fourth attack in the span of just one week. Threading details as they emerge below: This video shows smoke rising at a skyscraper in Moscow City, a symbol of Russia's economic resurgency under Putin. The area was also hit by a suspected Ukrainian-made Bober drone on July 30. https://t.co/4fdGOS8yDnt.me/ENews112/14811
Jul 31, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
“The only way to stop this,” Ukraine's military intelligence told us, “is the immediate withdrawal of Russian occupation troops from Ukraine.” Our latest visual investigation into Kyiv's growing fleet of homegrown kamikaze drones that have hit Moscow: nyti.ms/455tphc Public glimpses of Ukraine's long-range kamikaze drone program are rare. The first came in December, when influencer @igorlachenkov got an unexpected phone call from GUR, Ukraine's military intelligence. They needed money, and fast, for a “drone that can fly very far.”
May 31, 2023 • 31 tweets • 17 min read
We tracked how several tankers, all acquired by shell companies after Russia invaded Ukraine, secretly moved at least half a billion dollars worth of Russian oil — an apparent effort to deceive their U.S.-based insurer. Our latest visual investigation: nyti.ms/43DQxTn All the ships were “spoofing” their location: They sent out signals that showed they were in one location, while really they were somewhere else. Our investigation relied heavily on openly available sources and tools, some below are some insights into our reporting process.
Apr 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
We've identified the leader of the Discord group where top secret U.S. documents were leaked — it's a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, specifically its intelligence wing. Gift link, no paywall: nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor… Extraordinary team work here by @AricToler, @mschwirtz, @heytherehaley, @riley_mellen, @malachybrowne, @Tmgneff, @julianbarnes, Adam Goldman, @cjchivers, @kitty_bennett, @sheelaghnyc.
Mar 1, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Last week, during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed at least 4 unarmed Palestinians in Nablus that didn’t appear to pose any threat, our new visual investigation shows (paywall-free link): nytimes.com/2023/03/01/wor… A map of central Nablus, a city in the occupied West Bank, s In total, 11 people were killed and over 100 wounded, per the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israel Defense Forces reported no injuries. Palestinian officials said this was the deadliest start to a year in the occupied territory since 2000, the start of the First Intifada.
Jan 25, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
A cemetery used by Wagner to bury its fighters killed in Ukraine has increased nearly seven times over the past two months, @Maxar satellite imagery shows. W/ @dim109, @bottidavid. More: nytimes.com/2023/01/24/wor… The cemetery's location might have remained unknown if it wasn't for Vitaly Wotanovsky, an activist and former Russian Air Force officer who visits graves in Krasnodar to document Russians killed in Ukraine. This is him on his 50th birthday, arrested.
Jan 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
@Geoconfirmed: geolocation of damage, most likely from a Jan. 2 Ukrainian strike, in Tokmak (Токмак), Russian-occupied Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine: 47.258646, 35.708089. Sign says it's a veterans association, and is annexed to a hospital complex. t.me/voynareal/47250 RIA Novosti had a report from the site, showing this taller building — just opposite of the building with the veterans association sign. The brick damage shown may be a bit misleading, since this older photo on Yandex shows it already looked like that: yandex.com/maps/28480/tok…
Dec 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
@GeoConfirmed: Ukraine's State Border Service published a video showing four apparent artillery strikes on Russian positions in Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi (Куп'янськ-Вузловий), Kharkiv Oblast: . Analysis shows this occurred between Sept. 10-17. Details in thread. The geolocation is pretty straightforward with the many railroads visible. It's the strategic railway hub of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, which the Ukrainian military declared liberated on Sept. 25. At least two Russian Tigr infantry mobility vehicles are visible. google.com/maps/@49.66832…
Nov 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Two Polish citizens have died in an explosion near the border with Ukraine, Polish authorities said. The blast came as Russia fired roughly 90 missiles into Ukraine, aimed at its energy system. Kyiv says it shot most of them down. nytimes.com/live/2022/11/1… This video, filmed in the Polish border village of Przewodów, shows the aftermath of an explosion before sunset. It's not clear from the video what the cause of the explosion was, or if there was more than one.
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Satellite imagery, collected by @Maxar, from this Nov. 11 morning at 10:25 am local time, reveals significant damage to several bridges and the Nova Kakhovka dam in the aftermath of the Russian retreat from Kherson across the Dnipro River. 👇 The Antonivsky Bridge, the main crossing over the Dnipro River in the city of Kherson, was blown up before dawn after most Russian forces retreated and just before Ukraine's forces entered the city. @Maxar satellite imagery shows multiple destroyed spans. nytimes.com/2022/11/11/wor… ImageImageImage
Nov 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
A day before this attack, Russia's reconciliation center in Syria said that jihadist rebels and @SyriaCivilDef were staging a “provocation” on these IDP camps. But photos of weapon fragments suggest government forces conducted the attack while Russian warplanes were overhead. Here's that claim from Oleg Egorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, cited on Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. Besides the “refugee camps” (technically IDP camps) near Kafr Jales, he also mentions the ones near Kafr Daryan.
Nov 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Satellite imagery shows the devastating toll of the worst flood that Nigeria has experienced in years. 200K homes are damaged, infrastructure and vast sections of farmlands are destroyed, at least 603 killed, 2,4K injured and over a million displaced. nytimes.com/2022/10/17/wor… This is Echenga, in Nigeria's Kogi State, before and after the floods. On Twitter, Nigeria's minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, blamed the scale of the disaster on the failure by government branches other than her own. google.com/maps/@6.604981… 📸: @Maxar
Nov 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
The Visual Investigations team at @nytimes has THREE open positions: a reporter, a senior producer, and a fellow! Check it out, think about it, and apply if you'd wanna work with us 👇 Firstly, we're looking for a Video Journalist — that's a job for reporters, strengthening the current team of @heytherehaley, @muyixiao, @ckoettl, @robinnyc7, @tiefenthaeler and myself. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/deta… Image
Oct 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Before (Oct. 14) and after (Oct. 17) satellite imagery of the Evin prison in Iran shows the aftermath of the fire that occurred overnight on Oct. 15, including a heavily damaged building. Images: @Maxar. ImageImage As @heytherehaley notes, and fwiw, the heavily damaged building in Evin prison was tagged 6 years ago on Wikimapia as “the great hall” of the prison used for “public events, religious ceremonies.” wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=3… Image
Oct 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
“Putin should be happy. Not everyone gets such an expensive present on their birthday,” a senior Ukrainian military official told @nytimes, while neither denying nor confirming Ukrainian forces are behind the attack on the Crimean Bridge. nytimes.com/live/2022/10/0… Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee says it was a truck bomb. This security camera footage indeed shows a truck at the location of the explosion (@GeoConfirmed: 45.3013339, 36.5123380 - maps.app.goo.gl/yyg87EAfpXAsEn…).
Sep 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
There have been multiple reports of Russia using the Iranian-made Mohajer-6 (پهپاد مهاجر-6) to strike targets in Ukraine (incl. Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk), but this is the first visual confirmation that I've seen so far. H/t @wammezz @AbraxasSpa. (For reference, this Facebook post by Ukraine's Army — actually showing an archival photo Ababil-3, per @obretix — mentioning “ударні дрони” was used by some to say Mohajer-6 was used in Ukraine. Anyway, that above video visually confirms their presence.) facebook.com/okPivden/photo… Image
Sep 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Dozens of cities in Iran are embroiled in protests after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (#مهسا_امینی) died at a detention center while receiving training on hijab rules. She had been detained for “immodest clothing.” More by @CoraEngelbrecht and @farnazfassihi: nytimes.com/2022/09/22/wor… Also, watch BBC Persian's @FareenAssemi Persian talking about the widespread protests, which have turned from defiance against the hijab law into an outlet for broader frustrations with the Iranian government (corruption, economic mismanagement, etc.) instagram.com/reel/CiyOQFtqp…
Sep 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
This thread of satellite images, courtesy of @Maxar, shows Hurricane Fiona's destruction in Puerto Rico, including flooded fields and sediment runoff as seen here at Arecibo. “Hurricane Fiona dumped so much rain on Puerto Rico that its network of rivers flooded, causing catastrophic damage in many communities,” writes @adrianflorido. These before/after @Maxar images show two bridges over the Rio Grande de Arecibo. npr.org/2022/09/21/112…
Sep 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Interestingly, the opening shot of “The Best in Hell” (лучшие в аду) trailer, the new Prigozhin-linked movie on Wagner in Ukraine, shows the train station in Popasna — the Russian-occupied town where a Wagner base was bombed in August. google.com/maps/@48.62873… Screenshot from the first s...A satellite image, courtesy... The film's title appears to come from a recent (Sept. 10) quote by Prigozhin: “Go with Wagner PMC [...] They will make real warriors out of you and teach you how to win [...] Some will go to heaven, some will go to hell, but in hell we'll be the best.”