Here is ultimate proof that GRAD MLRS can fire WITHIN 5km range when used as 'direct fire':
In this video the Russians are peven PRACTICING how to fire on an ultimate short range. This means that firing MLRS on a very short range fits within the doctrine of the Russians. When they train on it, they use it too in battles. Or... in attacks on civilian areas!
One very common practice that we have noticed in the ongoing conflict is that the Russians fire GRAD from Ukrainian direction on occupied cities and villages, as to pretend as if the Ukrainian army shot the rockets.
Organisations like HRW or OSCE have easily fallen for this trick and blamed Ukraine for firing such attacks on civilians, because they apply the minimum ranges as absolute borders.
This footage shows how wrong they have been. The Russians fire in much shorter ranges and train it's hybrid army with this practice.
Next time the argument of minimum range can not be used anymore!
Because the Ukrainian 'cyborgs' defended Donetsk Airport for more than 240 days against the Russian invaders and caused hundreds of losses among them, they are especially hated.
On January 20th Donetsk Airport fell and remaining Ukrainian cyborgs were captured as well as some reinforcements arriving.
Many people have seen the disgusting video with 'Givi' and all main Russian media showing how they had captured a lot of them after collapsing the terminal with explosives upon the last defenders.
It was already argued right there that some of them had been tortured, shot and mutilated after being captured:
But since they tie hands of dead people too for easier transport and since the cause of death could not be established, it was difficult to prove.
Later a graphic video appeared where the corpses had clear headshots, which convinced me of them being executed:
18+ GRAPHIC Ukrainian cyborgs laying down together out in the open, hands tied up, shot throught the head = executed pic.twitter.com/ndHiuB3f50
— Ukraine@war (@DajeyPetros) February 24, 2015
Then we saw reports and photos of still living POW cyborgs forced to recover their dead comrades which as a war crime in itself.
On April 3rd a report came in where journalist Anastasia Birch and head of the main investigation department of the Security Service, Major-General Vasily Vovk said to have evidence that 'Motorola' had killed Igor Branovitskiy (seen alive as POW before).
He had been captured on January 20th and publicly shot dead after being tortured:
This video from Graham Phillips shows Igor being captured, but WITHOUT wounds in his face:
So it is clear that he got these wounds AFTER being captured, e.g. he has been tortured.
Kyiv Post has a detailed account of what happened. Cyborgs Yury Sova and sergeant Anatoly Svyryd witnessed Motorola killing Igor.
Also Kyiv Post had recorded Motorola saying: “I don’t give a shit about any accusations, believe it or not, I've shot 15 prisoners. I don’t give a shit. No comment. I kill whoever I want.”
Conclusion
It is confirmed now that the Russian occupants executed at least one cyborg POW from Donetsk airport in front of others. But this also confirms the suspicions we always had about all the other bodies that were found at Donetsk airport with the hands tied.
Moreover... Motorola/Arseny Pavlov can officially be considered a war criminal from now on.
In a half hour long video a Ukrainian commander, who was run over by a Russian tank, explains how it was at the frontline in Debaltseve:
This is (briefly) how he was run over by a tank that drove through the trench with one track:
Here are some more 'highlights'...
This is something that has been noticed many times before indeed.
The tank driver was still alive:
That's the difference between Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. After killing four in such a gruesome way, anybody would want to kill the perpetrator. The Ukrainians didn't do it. The Russians kill for less and even kill their own...
After infantry attacked them:
This is a known pattern within the Russian army, but not seen or reported in this way before in Ukraine.
This may be hard to believe, but many of 'their own soldiers' are criminal inmates forced to fight. They have them rather dead than alive... See this blog.
Just to mention a couple of things.
All these are confirmations of what we have noticed many times before.
On special request @finriswolf published satellite images of BUK units near the Ukrainian border at the level of Marinovka, close to the MH17 launch site.
At this moment it is not very clear from these images that these are indeed BUKs. But @finriswolf promised to send some better images.
I'll get more images out without compression soon with the help of my fellow Citizen Journalists because thats what I am - not a spy!
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 20, 2015
When available, we'll let you know.
This position is a little bit South of the position where very clear VK-photos had appeared of BUK vehicles. See this blog.
Of course they reposition them once in a while.
The exact date of the satellite images is not revealed, but falls within 'a number of weeks of July 17th'.
With these exact coordinates an interested party with good money may want to buy these images themselves...
Remember: when BUKs are within operational range to connect and communicate with each other, it would be very illogical NOT to make such a connection. It is safe to assume that if they could connect, they indeed did.
That shows the command to launch the rocket must have come from Russian territory.
The second shows part of a BUK with two soldiers posing in front of it:
This photo is particularly interesting, because it has the geolocation in it:
In other words: we finally have evidence that Russia deploys a BUK battery near the Ukrainian border at the level of Marinovka.
This is relevant because the BUK that shot down MH17 could have been connected with the command and control BUK and/or the Russian BUK radar on the Russian side at this distance.
The distance between the two locations is 22 kms:
The date that these BUKs were published is March 17th 2015 (during the Minsk II ceasefire). MH17 was shot down on July 17th 2014. Yet, this still shows Russia deploys BUK batteries near the Ukrainian border.
We are still waiting for good satellite images of the area to determine whether and where the BUKs where deployed on July 17th 2014.
This article from Informnapalm shows the same BUK image and more, but with a different date: October 19th 2014. Nevertheless the geotagging is the same.
This is another photo from that article at the same location:
One of the first and main things we have to do with photos and videos coming available in the public domain is assess whether they are real or fake. One of the most important things that helps is to geolocate them. When you can position a photo on a specific (time and) location is says a hundred times more then without it.
With so many GPS-capable smartphones it is strange that not more photos and videos with geolocation appear.
Basically the reason for this is, that there is no easy way to implement this. And because it is not easy, little people use it. Only VK has a implemented feature that is often used. But the disadvantage here is that it is a nuisance to search in geotagged photos that are of your interest.
So, why not build an app that does this conveniently?
I cannot be too specific here, because others might run away with my idea, but the plan consists of two parts; an app and a webapplication:
The app:
Build an app that can make photos and videos AND stores the gps information.
When an internet connection is available ask to upload it immediately
Get it published on social networks (first on Twitter)
Webapplication:
a good search engine must be made with a map as basis and filters for convenient selection
in first instance the twitter API can be used for this
in a later stadium (when it grows beyond a certain magnitude) an independent webapplication with their own servers might be build for this
At this moment test have already been done and what we know we can build the app. We have successfully made photos, connected to twitter and tweeted the photo.
Next steps we want to make is to read and include the gps information and give the app a neat look and feel. And then we can already launch the app for beta-testing.
This app can be used by journalists, activists and others who want to report with geotagged media. This might be about an accident, a fire, a festival or a war as in East-Ukraine.
Phase 1
For building and maintaining a professional version of the app we need 5.000 euros in 2015. This amount is used to pay the programmer and a part is used for making a functional description and project management.
This first version will be distributed for free so everybody can use it. The app can be used in combination with a twitter account.
Depending on how quickly the money comes available, the beta-version might be released after one or more months.
Phase 2
If the app is successful we will build a webapplication based on the Twitter API.
The money needed for this, is not clear yet.
Phase 3
If the Twitter-webapp is successful we might build an independent application where the geotagged media can be uploaded to and which would be easier and quicker to search than by using the Twitter-API.
Sponsor the project
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When you live in Ukraine, DO NOT DONATE. Your country needs your money more than we do. (Unless you are an oligarch of course...)
Ideas
If you have questions, good ideas, suggestions for this project, please let us know.
I'm going to start tweeting never-released-to-the-public imagery of 4 separate Russian armored groups and their crossing #Ukraine border
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
If I disappear from Twitter after posting these new sat images, make sure to have my remains tested for polonium ;)
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
Here is a map of the Ukraine crisis situation at the end of July 2014 - our area is in the red square pic.twitter.com/FpdunI9f4R
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
Nothing but peaceful green fields and groves of trees separating the farms stretching to the south (Aug 1st) .... pic.twitter.com/F4L2j2tr5K
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
Let's take another peek on Aug 15th. What's this? Who has been driving up and down the poor farmer's fields?! pic.twitter.com/YWxBYVhidS
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
This deserves a closer look! Image 1 is Aug 1. Image 2 is Aug 15 - it looks as if a rally car race is going on here pic.twitter.com/YQ2uWU5vcP
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
With so many empty 'parking lots' nearby - why is Russia parking 150+ vehicles under camo and tree canopies? pic.twitter.com/zJmgftjDjZ
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
Ignore the straight tracks and look at the many 'looped' tracks where vehicles have pulled in to park in the trees pic.twitter.com/DBPDuGUwUE
— Not a spy (@finriswolf) March 14, 2015
