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While Russia and Ukraine conduct negotiations to de-escalate tensions, a private US business released a set of high-resolution satellite photographs depicting the newest advancements in Russia’s military aggression against its neighbour, which is being described as the largest assault on a European state since WWII.
The latest satellite photographs provide details on the ongoing Russian military invasion in northern Ukraine, covering more than 15,000 square kilometres over Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pripyat/Chernobyl.
The massive Russian military convoy that was last observed northwest of Kyiv at Antonov Airport has dispersed and redeployed, according to imagery published by Maxar Technologies. The military convoy had previously stalled outside of Kyiv, when US officials claimed it had been attacked with anti-tank rockets by Ukrainian forces.
Damage to commercial and residential property may also be seen in satellite pictures from Kyiv and Chernihiv, which are located northeast of Kyiv.
The Chernobyl nuclear power facility, which lost power following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is also included in the new batch of photographs.
Russia and Ukraine failed to reach an agreement in their first high-level discussions since Moscow’s incursion two weeks ago, raising fears that Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, would be encircled shortly.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, declared that half of the city’s inhabitants had evacuated “has been turned into a fortification. Every road, facility, and checkpoint have been reinforced.”
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that 100,000 people had been evacuated from the country’s cities in just two days, but accused Russian forces of attacking a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol.
