Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social) @Michael1Sheldon Twitter profile

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

My latest for @DFRLab on the IAF strike near Balakot. Main takeaway: no significant damage was done, which is odd considering the munitions involved.

Surgical Strike in Pakistan a Botched Operation?

Indian jets carried out a strike against JEM targets inside Pakistani territory, to questionable effect

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@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

Only visible damage on @planetlabs satellite imagery was to a patch of trees near the target area.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

An Akhmat fighter finds a drone video of himself getting his leg blown off, and posts it to his VK.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

A lot of talk going around claiming that the image on the left shows wreckage of a Pakistani F-16. Another angle of the same piece of wreckage clearly shows that it is from an Indian MiG-21. Key identifiers numbered and marked with white arrows.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

4 years

I've yet to be able to identify the guy, but here are some more identifiable pictures.

Ellie 🌻

@JustEllieKY

4 years

This is the man that pulled the officer down the steps of the Capitol. If you can identify him, please contact @FBI . High resolution picture, shouldn't take long.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Artillery impacts in a populated area of Kharkiv.

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@Michael1Sheldon

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Kadyrovtsy hanging back in what looks an awful lot like Novoazovsk school number 1. Reference image:

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@ramesh8v @planetlabs I think it's sufficient when combined with other evidence, AFAIK the resolution is 3 meters/pixel but yes. I do look forward to higher resolution imagery, but I would expect at least some degree of discoloration or blurring to existing structures if any building was hit.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

4 years

Hi Diane, I'd be glad to explain that. I paid for it out of pocket because some lunatic was walking across the senate floor with zip cuffs. He and everyone else who stormed the Capitol created the need for that software.

Diane B

@dmb1031

4 years

Would someone like to explain why The Atlantic Council which is a think tank has the need for Facial Recognition software. #inquiringmindswantoknow

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@ChandaMama21 @ramesh8v @planetlabs Yes it's me, Michael Jakob Sheldon.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Having geolocated most affected locations from the February 28 artillery strikes on Kharkiv, I decided to draw lines between the areas where cluster munitions landed, and where the rocket engines fell.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Geolocated: Rosgvardiya mortar positions outside of Kharkiv. 50.1002268125, 36.3892330433

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

My first piece for @bellingcat is now live! If I were to issue one takeaway, it would be that we currently have an insufficient amount of information about the attack on Kramatorsk to confidently point the finger in any one direction.

Russia’s Kramatorsk ‘Facts’ Versus the Evidence - bellingcat

What can open source material tell us about the attack on Kramatorsk railway station that left dozens dead?

www.bellingcat.com

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Russian helicopters over Luhansk.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

This incident has been characterized by some of the hottest takes and laziest analysis I have seen since joining Twitter, truly incredible.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

I made a map of footage from Februay 28 that I found and geolocated from Kharkiv Telegram pages.

Kharkiv February 28 artillery attacks - Google My Maps

Kharkiv February 28 artillery attacks

www.google.com

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

11 months

My best guess would be the parking area of "Подмоскоvные Vечера". The hedges and trees in the background are very consistent. And the building in the background looks like "Terrazza."

Eliot Higgins

@EliotHiggins

11 months

Gold star to whoever geolocates this first.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

I have been getting a lot of comments to my recent article that mention a second location for the strike. A large warehouse was pointed out as having been targeted, I currently do no see any indication of that, but I am looking forward to seeing higher resolution imagery.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

More Z-marked vehicles. This time moving through the village of Belyanka, Belgorod Oblast. 50.465925, 37.195805

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

At one of these locations, you could even see a smoke cloud from a recently fired MLRS, leading in the direction of Kharkiv.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

Picture of an intact MiG-21 for reference.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Footage from the Saltovka neighborhood (bottom-left corner of above satellite image) shows the results of heavy shelling.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

The lines led back to an area near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Planet labs imagery from the previous day showed significant evidence of rocket artillery fire at this location. Each number on the map corresponds to the amount of burn marks observed on the ground.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Geolocation of alleged incendiary munition use by Popasna. Camera near 48.64415842566944, 38.36791184295228

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@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Chuhuiv, 49.8297932275, 36.6819746745

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Krasukha-4 in Belarus.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Looks like 1st Tank Army in Seretino, Belgorod Oblast. MSTA-S, Borisoglebsk-2, and more.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

What looks like T-90As hiding in a wooded area on the side of the road connecting Tomarovka and Rakitnoe.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Looks like Iskander transporter-loaders and possibly TELs in Lgov, Kursk Oblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Went straight through Rechitsa westward.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

T-80BVM , BMP-2, and more from the 64th Motor-Rifle Brigade arriving at (or moving through) Rechitsa from Khabarovsk.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

MSTA-S stuck in a field near Bessonovka, Belgorod Oblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@ScrutatorV Both pictures have been used to claim that an F-16 was shot down. I can't say that an F-16 wasn't shot down, but I have not seen any credible evidence to support those claims. I am not convinced that the picture you posted is from a GE F110, the curvature is off.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

MTLBs near Aleksandrovka, Belgorod Oblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

I found them by drawing a rough max range circle from some of the most heavily shelled areas of Kharkiv, in the direction of which the mortar tubes were pointing in the video.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Sentinel-1 shows signs of activity at the outskirts of Oktyabrskiy, Belgorod Oblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Another one in Kharkiv

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Working on geolocating some of these MLRS launches from Belgorod.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Still missing a few locations, but here's a map of damage to civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv on March 2.

Kharkiv, March 2, 2022 - Google My Maps

Kharkiv, March 2, 2022

www.google.com

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Troops at Gusev, Rostov Oblast. 15km from border with Ukraine

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Pontoon bridges appear to be moving south through Bykhov, Belarus.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Cluster munition carrier impacting in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast. 50.54633094159178, 30.205833688209925

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

4 years

Enthusiast communities are a hugely valuable resource to the open source researcher. My most recent article for @DFRlab about the illicit extraction of coal from occupied Donbas shows just this.

Russian companies continue to expropriate Ukraine’s natural resources illegally

Open-source imagery reveals illicit cargo rail traffic at Russian-Ukrainian border crossings

medium.com

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Sentinel-2 imagery of the new helicopter base at Tomarovka airfield, geolocated by @bobmoretti . Comparison between Feb 05 and 15.

Bobby Moretti

@bobmoretti

2 years

@GirkinGirkin Same location as this: @DefMon3 I found the location! 50.7009, 36.2902

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

By my count this should be the third train like this moving from Misyash to Klintsy in the past week or so.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

The Russian Military Forces interactive map by @GFSIS_official is an incredibly useful reference tool.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

1 year

An excellent conclusion to the questions raised in the original October 2022 article about the Russian command in Balakliia. The military commandant with the callsign "Granit" has been identified.

Mari Saito

@saitomri

1 year

Buslov, pictured here, says he wasn't in Balakliia. Meanwhile the SBU has confirmed our reporting. @zverev_live @reporter_polina @m_tsvetkova @ChristianLowe4

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

First one is kind of tricky, but appears to be a solid match at 50.442307, 36.575494, looking in a south-western direction. Reference images from Google Maps and Yandex street view.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

Excellent usage of the vegetation filter.

Nathan Ruser

@Nrg8000

5 years

Recent satellite imagery of India's Balakot strike call into question India's claims of significant damage. See the imagery and my analysis of the strike at @ASPI_org 's strategist.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

They likely moved on since filming this video, but if we see mortar fins in Saltivka or Danilivka, it's good to have a better sense of who might have been behind them.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

4 years

@oryxspioenkop 🤔

Thick smoke pours out of the barrel, the open tureet hatches, the open engine cowling cover of a...

Download Image of Thick smoke pours out of the barrel, the open tureet hatches, the open engine cowling cover of a confiscated Serbian Army T-55 Main Battle Tank (MBT), parked in the field artillery...

nara.getarchive.net

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Tos-1A at Zolotukhino station. Kursk Oblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

T-80BV and T-72B3 at Rzhava station in Pristen, Kursk Oblast.

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@Michael1Sheldon

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

This video appears to have been taken at 46.950427, 32.021502

Eliot Higgins

@EliotHiggins

2 years

Two further videos may be relevant to this attack, one showing a rocket motor embedded in the front of a car, geolocation required:

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Somehow a Danish carpenter's van ended up with Chechens in the Donbas.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

11 months

Getting closer. Terrazza seems to be attacched to a spa Aldo Coppola, which has more reference images. Now seeing matching cobble stones there.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Images allegedly taken at Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast. Posted February 16.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Contrails over the Sea of Azov this morning.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Seven BM-27s with transporter-loaders, fuel, etc on R-31 near Kalinkovichi.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Reports of the shelling also hitting a blood center, two women and a man injured, one man died while waiting to donate blood.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

5th Tank Brigade route.

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@Michael1Sheldon

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

1 year

Buslov's name has been floating around on the internet for some time, without confirmation he was Granit until now. Documents allegedly captured from Russian troops in Balakliia went up for auction in early October last year. Some of them contained his signature.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

VDV in Pskov.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Full video

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Undated footage of fires on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

1 year

WarTranslated (Dmitri)

@wartranslated

1 year

Full message of Prigozhi "declaring war on the Russian Ministry of Defence: "PMC Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped. They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Looks like T-80Us and BM-21s from the 4th Guards Tank Division at Nara station.

IgorGirkin

@GirkinGirkin

3 years

@_viktor__tolmachev_17 :Тихонова Пустынь ? Калужская обл

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

50.048644307238014, 36.18878262341298

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Allegedly Russian troops near Rechitsa.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

In which Kadyrovtsy become intimately familiar with backblast.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Another shot of this train with some interesting EW equipment.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

New piece from my colleague @LAndriukaitis and me for @DFRLab .

Russian equipment flows into Belarus

Russia continues to move tanks and other materiel into Belarus along Ukraine’s northern border, as far west as Brest

medium.com

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@Michael1Sheldon

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Video shot at 50.030460787825476, 36.2938205590018

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@RALee85

2 years

Russian razvedchiki and Spetsnaz in Kharkiv. I don’t think they’ll be able to take the city just with light forces.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@tejpaldhillon9 @planetlabs It does appear so, yes. You can see it in the gif, directly above the E.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

Retweeting for visibility - there seems to be confusion about imagery on Zoom Earth. It is a good website for high quality imagery, but it does not provide up-to-date imagery.

Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@MojoSnoopy @ELINTNews That's not how zoom earth works. The imagery on the right is from Bing, probably taken some time in 2014. Google maps historical imagery attached for reference.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

@tom_bullock_ Definitely at 50.05471862234514, 36.360583028163475

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

1 year

One document, dated April 17, showed the staff of the entire Baltiysk kommandatura. The document appeared authentic, as it contained confirmed Russian MPs, but I was unable to place any of these people in Balakliia.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Appears to be Ulan-Ude, at 51.886360, 107.520328.

IgorGirkin

@GirkinGirkin

3 years

Армия агрессора, "погрузка эшелона идет полным ходом"

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Seemingly BMP-1s from the 69th covering brigade.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

1 year

Double cope cage BTR. One for the turret, one for the troops riding on top.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

BMD-2 with parachutes moving from train station in Vyshniy Volochyok.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Shelling in Kharkiv.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@MojoSnoopy @ELINTNews That's not how zoom earth works. The imagery on the right is from Bing, probably taken some time in 2014. Google maps historical imagery attached for reference.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Full video

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

That right there is a MiG-21 type elevator, things are getting real.

Waseem Sajjad

@waseem_swaty

5 years

Two fighter jets of IAF gunned down...one in jammu kashmir budgam and another in azad kashmir samani sector #PakArmyZindabad #PakistanArmyZindabad #Budgam

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Stitched panorama of two BMP-2s parked outside of Moshchenoe, Belgorod Oblast. Geolocated to 50.680600746922096, 36.13538047274335 Reference:

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Two Russian fighters from one of several militias that support the Russian military pose with a stolen Ukrainian police car near Valuyki. Pepe stickers and all.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Timelapse showing what appears to be the emergence of military camps south of Rechitsa. Sentinel-1 SAR via @MJ_Cruickshank 's SARveillance.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

2S3, BM-21 outside of Bakhchisaray, Crimea.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Video appears to show T-72s from 5th TB southbound on R33. Reference:

IgorGirkin

@GirkinGirkin

3 years

Беларусь

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

Reference:

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

3 years

Increased occupancy at Soloti by the looks of it.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

2 years

“Big Bird” acquisition radar in Kursk.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

5 years

@AverageIT @scottkct @bellingcat Yes, my understanding is that two missiles were fired. Local sources report two-three explosions before the aircraft hit the ground.

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Michael Sheldon (michaelsheldon.bsky.social)

@Michael1Sheldon

11 months

Previous reporting has Surovikin spotted at this venue in the past.

После сдачи Херсона российский ресторан «отказался от обслуживания» генерала Суровикина

Рублёвский ресторан «Подмосковные Vечера» уже стесняется упоминать о том, что генерал был их почётным клиентом

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