Participants of the project of the Ukrainian edition of Radio Svoboda, which informs about current topics of the residents of the eastern regions of Ukraine, Donbass Realia, created an interactive map of Russia’s military presence near the Ukrainian borders and occupied territories. This is reported on the project website. November 2021.
There are also marked places for training and storage of weapons in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, found by the project over the past few years.
maps can be found at:
- publications about each of these landfills, where there is information about the types of equipment and weapons stored there
- on satellite images received by Western media from Maxar Technologies
- video transfer technology
The authors of the project assured that the map will be updated as soon as new data appears.
According to ZAXID.NET, in November last year Russia annexed Crimea and occupied part of Donbass, creating puppet quasi-state formations there.
Against this background, during talks with US President Joseph Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced a number of demands for the de-escalation of tensions in the security sector. In this area: stop NATO enlargement to the east, abandon the establishment of military bases in the former Soviet Union, and do not deploy armed forces and weapons in European countries in addition to those already deployed as of May 1997.
US-Russian talks in Geneva on January 10, which lasted eight hours, ended in vain. However, from the statements of their participants, American commentators conclude that the United States has rejected the main thing from the list of Russia’s demands – guarantees of Ukraine’s non-accession to NATO.
January 12 took place meeting of the Council of Russia – NATO in Brussels. As a result, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the differences between the parties would not be easy to overcome, but a positive sign is that NATO member states and Russia have sat down at the negotiating table. The Russian delegation has not yet made a statement on the outcome of the talks.
Russia and the OSCE are scheduled to hold talks in Vienna on January 13.
Russia has placed additional strike forces for an air strike, the New York Times wrote on January 11, citing information from US officials. Fighting and transport helicopters, along with attack aircraft, will be an advantage for Russia if Putin decides to invade Ukraine, the newspaper’s interlocutors said. In addition, on the evening of January 11, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the beginning of military exercises near the border of Ukraine.
Sources The New York Times in American intelligence claims that Russia plans to increase the group of hundreds of thousands near the border to 175 thousand fighters. At the same time, the same material says that a possible attack on the territories controlled by the Ukrainian government may be postponed due to weather conditions, as the soil in eastern Ukraine has not yet frozen due to the warm winter. The spies believe that this may lead to the postponement of the operation to February.
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