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Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine

Posted by timothy on from the one-for-all-and-what's-the-password? dept.

U.S. officials today made public satellite imagery which they say proves that Russian forces have been shelling eastern Ukraine in a campaign to assist rebel groups fighting Ukraine’s government. The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the civilian-taken satellite images Sunday, said they show visual evidence that Russia has been firing shells across the border at Ukrainian military forces. Officials also said the images show that Russia-backed separatists have used heavy artillery, provided by Russia, in attacks on Ukrainian forces from inside Ukraine. One image dated July 25/26 shows what DNI claims is “ground scarring” on the Russian side of the border from artillery aimed at Ukrainian military units in Ukraine, as well as the resultant ground craters on the Ukrainian side of the border:

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  1. Why the fuck is this on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This submission is pretty much irrelevant here at Slashdot.

    Satellite imagery has been in use since the 1950s and 1960s. It's not new technology. It wasn't news in the 1970s, for crying out loud! There's no reason for this useless submission to be on the Slashdot front page.

    I come here to get science, technology and computing news that I don't find in the mainstream media. I come here to engage in discussion about such news relating directly to science, technology and computing.

    I do not come to Slashdot to read about purely political articles, especially when it involves petty disputes in second-world shitholes half-way around the globe. Their strife is totally irrelevant here.

    If I want to read about crap like this submission, then I will go to one of the many other news web sites out there that cater to general news. But that's not what I'm doing. I'm coming to Slashdot because I want relevant news about technology, science and computing. So give us relevant articles, please, and not nonsense like this.

  2. Re:Great... by Mister+Liberty · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the tears from Foreign Secreatary Frans "Crocodile" Timmermans are from the same guy that says "Israel has got a right to defend itself" when this fascist country commits further crimes against Gazans.