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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On Ukraine, got any non twitter suggestions for perspective?

  • Suchomimus does a good job covering OSINT in the Russo-Ukraine War; attacks, geolocation, battle damage assessment, etc.
  • Oryx catalogues every pictured Russian loss. They are up to 3,200 tanks, 4,300 IFVs lost already. Every single one has a picture. Click on a few, scroll and scroll and scroll.
  • Right here on Lemmy, the !ukraine@sopuli.xyz and !combatvideos@sh.itjust.works communities get quite a bit of war coverage.

  not familiar with OSINT

  Open Source INTelegence. Basically people taking publicly available data and using it to confirm attacks. Things like NASA FIRMS data can be used to verify where fires are; and when combined with videos of a fire in the direction of an airfield, for example, can be used to confirm that yes, on this specific date, these parts of an airfield are on fire.

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• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Understandable, I don’t know of anyone off of Twitter but maybe some of the people I follow are on Mastodon. I’ll try and find out sometime and get back if they are.

  And yea pretty much, just stands for open source intelligence, people just use publicly available data (mostly drone videos, and paid satellite imagery) to analyze progress from both parties in the conflict giving a real, semi live perspective on advances on the ground, what kind of equipment and quantity of that equipment that have been destroyed.

  This site by oryx is the main one I know of that tracks destroyed Russian equipment that’s confirmed through imagery, so the numbers are likely fairly lower than reality, and the destruction numbers are still staggering.

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