ROMA – The eyes from the sky rest on the areas where it is most intense the hammering of the Russian army in Ukraineand the first effect that leaps to the eye is one: devastation.
The one of Mariupolthe martyr city surrounded by the siege of Moscow, seen on March 14 from the satellites of the Maxar Technologies, one of the private companies that has opened to the public the view from above of the conflict, which until recently was a prerogative of intelligence and governments. It is the city that, according to the municipal authorities, is already mourning almost 2,400 civilian deaths, out of 400 thousand inhabitants, since the encirclement began. From which they began to emerge the first cars of evacuees, along the “corridor” that opened at the exit. A path that – denounces Ukraine – the humanitarian aid that would serve the exhausted population still fails to travel in the opposite direction, due to the blockade of the enemy. A new attempt will be made today, while the safe passage of aid remains one of the key points on the negotiating table between the delegations.
But there is also the anguish of Irpin, decisive place of confrontation, with its row of cars of ordinary people, in columns towards the destroyed bridge: you have to jump on foot, between boards and brushwood, to try to leave behind the grip of the Russian army that presses on, hoping that in that moment the blasts of artillery look elsewhere. Or again Muska suburb north of the capital Kiev, with its houses dotted with red and black, the colors of fire and the clouds of smoke that surround them.
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The Maxar images are relaunched by Mike Eckel’s twitter profilea RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty reporter who had already covered events in Crimea, Chechnya and Georgia.
Maxar, based in the US, Colorado, says she knows how to combine “the capabilities of space infrastructure and ground intelligence to offer innovative solutions to commercial and government missions.” In the Ukrainian conflict, his satellite shots have come to somehow guide the developments of what is happening on the ground. His lenses showed the first images of the now well-known column of Russian armored vehicles and military vehicles, 60 kilometers long, which headed towards the capital Kiev. Mariupol was already on his radar, with an evocative confrontation between the “before and after” Russian attacks on the city. Among its most recent launches, su Twitteralso the detail of an artillery battery from Ozera, near the Antonov international airport, complete with smoke present on many positions to indicate that they have been hit by enemy forces.
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