War in "live broadcast": as satellite images help to record Russian crimes in Ukraine

Thanks to Planet Labs staff almost 3 years ago, it became known that Russia has accumulated troops and equipment near the border with Ukraine, preparing for a full -scale invasion. Thanks to modern opportunities, it is possible to track the aggressive plans of other countries in the initial stage. Satellite images in Russia's confrontation against Ukraine have become another important factor, as they allow to monitor the military crimes of the aggressor country in fact in "live broadcast".

This is stated in Forbes. It is about Planet Labs, which at one time has concluded a NATO agreement on the delivery of personnel that allow you to track missiles, spaceports, boats, etc. around the world. This helps to strengthen the alliance, and also counteracts the threats of war. In an interview, the co -founder of Villa Marshall said that the threat of war prompted NATO to start receiving additional intelligence on the preparation of different countries for aggression.

In particular, it is about Ukraine and thanks to satellite images 2 and a half years ago it became known that Russia began to accumulate troops and equipment near the border to invade the foreign state. The whole world "arena" can now be photographed in high quality due to the hundreds of Planet Labs satellites, so a sudden invasion can no longer happen. "By receiving pictures of Ukraine and Russia every day, you will not be able to hide military capacity.

Support of Ukraine from Europe and the United States continues because everyone can see what is happening according to these satellite images," said Villa Marshall. The company also has partnerships with the Human Rights Watch, which conducts an investigation into human rights and captures crimes from aggressors in the most dangerous points in the world. In Ukraine, HRW also leads a chronicle of violation of various rights of people and war crimes.

Planet Labs photo archives can be evidence during the future court of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The Russian troops have committed a number of violations of international humanitarian law, including non -proportional and non -proportional bombardments and shelling of civilian districts, which causing residential buildings, medical and educational institutions," representatives of the organization reported on the eve.

We will remind, on August 25 it was reported that the US and Britain passed the Armed Forces satellite images from Kursk region, wrote in NYT. Anonymous US officials shared that various intelligence was also in the hands of defense forces. Ukrainian commanders were to use them to monitor hostile reinforcements, not for the offensive. On September 27, Google Earth reported how cities worldwide have changed in 80 years.