{"id":17657,"date":"2022-02-21T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:34:01","slug":"russian-territory-was-shelled-from-the-russia-occupied-territory-osint-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-territory-was-shelled-from-the-russia-occupied-territory-osint-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian territory was shelled from the Russia-occupied territory. OSINT Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia keeps actively fabricating and promoting fake news reports, organizing false-flag provocations to justify the Kremlin\u2019s decision to openly invade Ukraine with military force, mainly for the domestic audience and, secondly, for the international community. International volunteer community InformNapalm, undertook an open-source (OSINT) investigation of the incident that had taken place on February\u00a019, 2022. Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee initiated criminal proceedings as a result of this incident. InformNapalm volunteers determined the exact coordinates of the multiple rocket launcher (MRL) used to shell a border area in Rostov Oblast of Russia. Rockets were found to have been launched at 4.00\u00a0AM on February\u00a019, from the village of Sukhodil in Luhansk Oblast, currently controlled by the Russian occupation forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On February\u00a019, 2022, Russian media actively reported<\/a> that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated criminal proceedings \u201con the fact of attempted murder perpetrated in a generally dangerous manner by shelling the border area of Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation from the Ukrainian side.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUnknown individuals staying in the territory of Ukraine used a multiple rocket launcher to shell the border area of Tarasovskiy Raion of Rostov Oblast,\u201d <\/em>Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee stated.<\/p>\n

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The next day, Russian propagandists from the NewsFront channel published a video purported to confirm the shelling from Ukraine to reinforce the message. The information about the shelling was supported with exclusive video footage shot from a surveillance camera that had recorded the MLR volleys. Russian propagandists claimed in their publication that the shots had been fired \u201cfrom the northern bank of the Siverskyi Donets near the village of Bolotene.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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InformNapalm volunteers noticed that the video footage published by the Russian propagandists indicated the coordinates of the surveillance camera in the SK-42 reference system (the so-called rectangular coordinates<\/em>) used for military purposes only.<\/p>\n

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These figures may have seemed inconsequential for people better versed in propaganda rather than in military affairs. However, military experts can easily convert these coordinates into the WGS-84 reference system commonly used by civilians. In this reference system, the coordinates will look like 48\u00b034\u201932.5\u2033N 39\u00b035\u201903.1\u2033E<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

These are the coordinates of the village of Sukhodil<\/a> (before the decommunization in Ukraine, this village was named Pionerskoye, and this name is still retained on the Russian maps). The geographical location of the surveillance camera is indicated with a red triangle on the map:<\/p>\n

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It can be seen from Liveuamap<\/a> that this area has not been controlled by the Ukrainian military since 2014 and is under the control of the Russian occupation forces. The area control boundary runs along the Siverskyi Donets river.<\/p>\n

Brief analysis of the video footage<\/h2>\n