December 10, 2018 (Defense Blog) Satellite
imagery from Google Earth taken in November shows hundreds of Russian main
battle tanks at a new military base on the outskirts of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in
Russia's Rostov Oblast. "Images show hundreds of main battle tanks like as
T-64 and also T-62M, while a thousand military trucks, artillery systems and
tankers are located slightly higher," Defense Blog said. The large-scale
military base only 18 kilometers away from the border with eastern Ukraine's
Russian-occupied territory. Civil volunteer, Donbas war veteran, head of the
Mir & Co charity fund Myroslav Hai gave the exact coordinates of the base
on Google Maps. "Those who do not believe that the Russian Federation has
been massing tanks near our border could use Google Maps for assistance. Open Google Maps and enter the
coordinates: 48.271754, 40.262984.
Switch Google Maps to the Satellite view and see it by yourself.
This is just one of those
bases near our border. Reuters earlier quoted Chief of the General Staff of
Ukraine's Armed Forces Gen. Viktor Muzhenko as saying that Russia had been
ramping up its forces near the border with Ukraine since August 2018, posing
the greatest military threat since 2014. Muzhenko gestured to a series of
satellite images, which he said showed the presence of Russian T-62 M tanks
stationed 18 km (11 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
They had more than
doubled to 250 from 93 machines within the space of two weeks from
mid-September to October 1
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