It all started as an exercise of curiosity, wondering if the attack of the Kerch bridge in Crimea was seen from space.
To my surprise, this might be one of the least visible attacks occurred during the war in Ukraine.
With every news, I checked the publicly available satellite imagery from the European Space Agency and found evidence of many of the reports. Satellite images are purely objective. There is no manipulation or speech behind.
This is absolutely opposite to taking one side or another. This is about showing the reality and the scale of war. The one and only truth is that violence and war has to be condemned in all its forms and prevented with every minimum effort one can do.
#WarTraces start in Ukraine, because it’s close to Europeans, 24/7 on TV, and affecting many powerful economies. But there are many ongoing conflicts in the world. Many that seem to be forgotten. Many we don’t seem to matter or care about. Many that have to be stopped as well as this one.
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First Russian targets were aerodromes so air combat was neutralized. Antonov International Airport involved a tough battle from day 1
Verkhnotoretske village was an intense front for the first month, hardly 20km away from Donetsk
Mariupol was badly bombed at the start of the conflict. See the difference of usual infrared signal versus fires caused by bombs.
Mikolaiv's government building was half destroyed and 38 people died on 29th March.
South of Zaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe. It was early attacked and occupied in March. Further combats, like this one in August, could cause a nuclear catasthrope.
Claimed Crimea is connected to continental Russia via the Kerch bridge. A bomb-truck caused it's partial destruction in October 2022.
The attack in Kerch bridge led to a change in strategy and critical infrastructure for electricity and water have been targeted in sight of the coming winter.
It's usually cloudy in Ukraine, but these clouds aren't usual. The trails left behind aircrafts are also seen from space, providing information on their routes and height. Residential streets in Bakhmut, key location for Donbas' offensive, are resulting the scene of fierce combats. Europe's biggest salt mine, in Soledar, consists of 200km of 30m high tunnels, useful to house troops and war equipment during winter, hardly 15km away from Bakhmut.
One month since I first spotted the battle for Bakhmut on a residential neighbourhood to the East.
Infrared activity in Bakhmut doesn't cease being the hardest front of the war so far From 10th October 2023, the brutal attempts to capture Adviidka continues to cause deaths.
On November 6th 2022, attacks over refugee camps ended in 9 people killed (3 of them children). People has been displaced from their homes after destroying most major settlements. You can see there were no camps in this area in 2015.
Late 2017 involved intense bombing of cities presumably occupied in northern and eastern Syria.
