Russian territory was shelled from the Russia-occupied territory. OSINT Evidence

Russia keeps actively fabricating and promoting fake news reports, organizing false-flag provocations to justify the Kremlin’s 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 19, 2022. Russia’s 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 AM on February 19, from the village of Sukhodil in Luhansk Oblast, currently controlled by the Russian occupation forces.

On February 19, 2022, Russian media actively reported that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated criminal proceedings “on 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.”

“Unknown individuals staying in the territory of Ukraine used a multiple rocket launcher to shell the border area of Tarasovskiy Raion of Rostov Oblast,” Russia’s Investigative Committee stated.

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 “from the northern bank of the Siverskyi Donets near the village of Bolotene.”

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) used for military purposes only.

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°34’32.5″N 39°35’03.1″E

These are the coordinates of the village of Sukhodil (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:

It can be seen from Liveuamap 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.

The camera is installed on a dominating hill in line with the military logic. The camera’s absolute elevation is 76 m (it is indicated on the screenshot) and matches the hill height.

On the 11th second of the footage, the camera records the location of the second rocket launch. One can see not only the smoke trace from the rocket booster but also the reflected cloud of dust and combustion products behind the launcher. Physically, it is impossible to monitor settlements in the area controlled by the Ukrainian forces as closely as we can see on the video footage because it is located on the other bank of the Siverskyi Donets river and has no matching buildings.

The launch area is clearly seen to be located between buildings and greenery. A bird’s eye view of the area is enough. These are the coordinates of the camera’s location:

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InformNapalm’s volunteers effectively solved the case for Russia’s Investigative Committee. If Russia were genuinely interested in prosecuting the perpetrators, they would find them easily by tracking the route using the provided coordinates. However, Moscow does not want the truth; it wants fake news on the back of false-flag operations to manufacture grounds for waging not a hybrid war, but a larger-scale aggression against Ukraine.

Just a day earlier, on February 18, Russia’s national-level propaganda outlets, including the 60 Minutes show, were actively promoting fake video footage allegedly depicting a combat engagement with a “Ukrainian sabotage party” purportedly trying to “gain entry to blow up chemical industry facilities in the Donbas.” However, InformNapalm volunteers and many other OSINT investigators pointed toward numerous facts refuting the line put forward by the Russian spin doctors, from the video creation date to the expert assessment of both the behavior and ammunition, being unusual for special operations forces. Apparently, this video with tracer ammunition being fired was staged for visual appeal aiming at the mass audience inclined to believe the Kremlin’s propaganda rather than look for evidence on their own.

On February 21, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB RF) claimed yet another incident, with an allegedly “Ukrainian projectile hitting a building of the FSB’s border service in Rostov Oblast.” The State Border Service of Ukraine has officially stated that this is one more deliberate provocation by the Russian Federation. Obviously, it points toward the continued accumulation of fake “newsworthy events” resulting from Russia’s false-flag special operations intended to persuade primarily Russian citizens of the need to address the “Ukrainian question” as soon as possible. Read more related material from InformNapalm

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Roman Burko E.S.T.·

“Since yesterday fíksuêmo active holding a powerful DDos attack, sprâmovanoí ної on the website of the international volontersʹkoí кої community informNapalm. Several thousand IP addresses connected to a powerful network of botnet are participating in this kíberatací. Thanks to the professional actions of our technical administrator, for the readers of the site the consequences of the attack remain unnoticeable.
My Twitter page was also attacked and temporarily blocked.
With a high probability, we assume that the attack is coordinated by the Russian Federation’s special services. Such a conclusion we draw on a number of signs. In particular, the fact that the beginning of the attack falls on the active sharing of the language versions of our OSINT investigation with the exposure of the RSZV geolocation in the occupied territory of the ORDLO, which at 4 a.m. on February 19, held a provocative shelling of the territory of Russia I’m of the federation. Following the fact of this shelling, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation violated the criminal case and this special operation “under a false flag” laid the basis of further active actions of Russian propaganda and Putin’s statements with the basis of further aggressive actions against Ukraine.
We thank everyone who continues to share this important OSINT investigation, which is currently available in 9 languages of the world. In particular, yesterday morning, the materials of this investigation were actively distributed in Russian and English on Twitter even Russian opponents, including a team of Russian OSINT investigators Conflict Intelligence Team.
Thanks to everyone who is with us bringing important facts and evidence of the criminal actions of the Russian leadership and telling the world the truth about Russian aggression.”

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Roman Burko

“As a result of a mass attack of the Russian troll factory on Twitter, my page is temporarily blocked.
* The attack took place for the spread of OSINT investigation, which exposes the special operation of the Russian Federation “under a false flag”, in which the territory of the Russian Federation was fired from the Russian Federation. The InformNapalm community proved that the shelling was conducted from the territory that is under control by the Russian occupation forces in Donbass.
Yesterday on Twitter, our investigation spread, including many well-known Russian oppositionists, who have a significant reader audience.
https://informnapalm.org/51355-obstrel-territorii-rf-s.../
We remind you that last week the official page of the speaker InformNapalm - Mykhailo Makaruk was also blocked.”
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“It’s strange to think that the fulfillment of part of Russia’s demands will lead to peaceful co-existence, peaceful co-operation with Russia. I know the people in the West think exactly like this. But you just don’t know Russia. They seek only one sided advantage of their own”

-Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravetskyi
Speech at the Munich Conference.

What is the point of this word salad and what is the supposed IQ level of people supposed to believe it?

Yesterday, I heard the Ukrainian media in a concerted effort “debunking” the “fake news” of the Ukrainian company incursion into Rostov region.
The said that the video aired by Russian border guards as a proof consists of the destroyed BTR of uniquely Russian model, meaning the video was staged.

It is all fine except for border guards who never claimed that the intruders used BTR. They said two BMPs were used and shown the footage of two burning vehicles, both painted in a Ukrainian manner.
Who is supposed to believe this shit?

INFO authentic from inside ORDLO:

“In the last days, we on InformNapalm receive a lot of insights from familiar people from the occupied territories of the ORDLO.

Many of them inform us that Russian occupiers are mass hunting on the streets and coming into apartments and taking men aged 18 to 55. People are afraid that they will be taken away.

“I’m afraid that everyone I’ve been raked up will be thrown into a break through some area of the front.”
Because behind the Russians can create a “fences”. the squad “and there will be a battle,” - one of the local residents shared his assumptions.

“In the local massovo push-ups machines” on the needs of the Republic. But our people are creative. Neighbors, for example, partially disassembled their car in the garage so that it was not on the move, so that they wouldn’t get upset,” shares another insider from Luhansk region.”

🔥 What advice can be given to the residents of the ORDLO so that they can effectively sabotage the actions of the Russian occupiers?”

The Russian Federation continues its active actions in the framework of a large-scale information and psychological operation, which consists of numerous information occasions, fakes and provocations aimed at convincing Russian citizens of the need for a military solution to the “Ukrainian issue”.

The Russian Federation conducts daily operations “under a false flag” to bombard the minds of Russian citizens with statements that should convince them that Ukraine poses a huge threat to the security of the Russian Federation.

The FSB of the Russian Federation has just announced that it has allegedly detained six people in the occupied Crimea who were allegedly preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in an Orthodox Church in order to intimidate the population.
It is predicted that soon the special services of the Russian Federation may begin to implement real bloody provocations, which will fit into the canvas of the special operation under the “false flag”

So it came to the special operations of the Russian Federation to prepare terrorist attacks in the occupied Crimea.

So far, we are talking about “Orthodox churches”, but the imitation of blowing up, or real blowing up by the Russian special services of one of the pillars of the Kerch bridge is no longer far away... If the Kremlin continues its chosen line of action and provocations “under a false flag” in order to explain to the Russians the actions of a new invasion of Ukraine.

We observe what will happen next, and just in case, we remind you about the signs of preparing another special operation (https://t.me/informnapalm/3239), which we wrote about earlier.

It is important to keep in mind and announce the disclosure of the Kremlin’s intentions in order to disrupt Moscow’s steps in advance.”

1 hr ago: 7 a.m. EST 2/23/2022

🔥 “Attention! This especially applies to Ukrainian defenders who are at the forefront. Volunteers of the international intelligence community InformNapalm warn:
🔥 Russian REB / RER complexes and information-psychological operations specialists are now actively operating in the war zone, who not only conduct SMS-listings to influence Ukrainian military, but also use specialized tools and programs and with sending messages with a change of phone number.
🔥 For example, if you are sent an SMS message programmed by the phone number you called or wrote (the unit commander, combat sibling, your family member, mom, wife, etc. d.) then your smartphone or ordinary desktop phone will show as if a message came from someone you know. The content of the message can be manipulative or so to provoke you into certain actions.
🔥 When trying to call the specified number (that is, the person whose number shows your phone book on this text), the “busy” or “out of reach” buttons may burst, so that you can not immediately verify the information from the sender and start another bill

I’m very nervous. Be careful, take into account that the Russian occupiers act very sneaky and seek to disorientate you.”

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