28 Feb 2022 10:50 pm
No offense but didn't age well at all.Jantje_Smit » 27 Jan 2022, 9:29 am » wrote: ↑ About that Russian invasion threat.... it doesn't exist... this guy is quite good at debunking propaganda..
A 'Parthogenetic' Conflict - There Is No Russian Invasion Threat To Ukraine
...Based on such pictures Politico, for example, headlined on November 1:Satellite images show new Russian military buildup near Ukraine
The deployments come as tension is rising between Moscow and the West.
"New commercial satellite photos taken on Monday confirm recent reports that Russia is once again massing troops and military equipment on the border with Ukraine after a major buildup this spring.
The new images taken by Maxar Technologies and shared with POLITICO show a buildup of armored units, tanks and self-propelled artillery along with ground troops massing near the Russian town of Yelnya close to the border of Belarus. The units, which began moving in late September from other areas of Russia where they are normally based, include the elite 1st Guards Tank Army."
Yelnya is 250 kilometers (150 mi) north of the nearest Ukrainian border, not 'close' to it.The piece included this picture:
The picture shows parts of the regular storage area of the 144th Mechanized Division near Yelnya, Smolensk Oblast. The divisions was established in 2016-2017 on the basis of the former 28th Mechanized Brigade (Yekaterinburg).
This is a large formation with hundreds of vehicles. The division's forces include i.a. two mechanized regiments, one tank regiment, one recon battalion, one self-propelled artillery regiment, one anti-tank artillery battalion as well as supplementary forces.
Here is an uncropped picture of the whole area. It shows large size barracks at the top right and parking grounds for each of its subunits. The barracks roads and facilities were not built over night. The above picture was cropped to only show the lower middle part of the picture below...
