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Video shows Russian units and missiles moving towards Ukraine’s border – Henry Club

February 15, 2022
Bharat Times

CNN has geolocated and authenticated social media videos of these movements – although there are many more that remain unwatched.

Some videos come from official sources; Most are from Tiktok or YouTube. They are being analyzed by online observers and are often supplemented by satellite imagery.

There is also a lot of other evidence of military construction in the Belgorod region.

CNN geo-located the videos to the village of Serretano, about 15 miles (24 km) from the border. They were uploaded on Sunday, and show the tanks passing through the area.

These videos can be geolocated to:

night time movement

The Russian army is also moving in the area at night – tanks are being unloaded from trains.

There’s more snow here than further south – CNN geolocated this video in a village near Belgorod:

Tanks around Voronezh

surrounding area Voronezh Looks very crowded too. A large collection of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were filmed from a passing train over the past few days. According to analysts they are part of the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army.

And seen from other angles:

CNN has geolocated these clips at this location:

Helicopters near Belgorod

Over the past few days, more social media videos have shown the arrival of helicopters near the border with Ukraine. They could provide vital protection for ground troops in the event of an offensive. These were filmed near Belgorod:

Russian build-up includes tanks, infantry fighting vehicles known as BMPs and self-propelled artillery – as seen here on a train on the outskirts of Belgorod:

a lot of hardware traveling south from town kurskyCNN geolocated the video, which appears to have been shot on Saturday.

Missiles and artillery support

Michael Kaufman, Russia analyst at CNA, a non-profit organization based in Virginia, notes that units in Kursk (such as the 6th Combined Arms Forces) are “moving up to Belgorod with district-level artillery support. He says That the 1st Guards Tank Army has also begun to advance – “presumably in the final staging area.”

Of particular concern is the movement of convoys of Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles, which seem to have picked up in various parts of western Russia over the past few weeks.

If a conflict does begin, these will be used to attack fixed Ukrainian positions – such as command and control sites. They have a range of up to 250 miles (402 km) and have recently been observed in satellite imagery.

rocket launcher near the border

Russian and Belarusian armies started large scale joint exercise Last week near the Polish border, but some Russian forces have been operating several miles from where the exercises are taking place and have captured positions close to where the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus meet.

CNN geolocated the convoy, which includes several rocket launchers, to a distance of about 15 miles (24 km) north of the Ukrainian border.

Russian weapons – and ships – continue to be closed on the Ukrainian border. Sites where equipment was pre-located more than 100 miles (161 km) The units have been progressively evacuated from the border as they progress.

There are Russian units within a few miles of Ukraine, from the Azov Sea, along the Ukrainian border, and in Belarus.

“Russia’s current military build-up near Ukraine is unprecedented,” tweeted Rob Lee of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. “It’s not like the fear of the last war or the buildup in the spring [of 2021]The amount of Russian air, ground and naval military power now possessed by Ukraine is quantitatively greater.”

While the equipment appears to have been assembled, where – and when – it is moved next remains unknown.