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Large convoys of military equipment have been filmed in Russia and Belarus in recent days. Amateur videos analysed and verified by the FRANCE 24 Observers team show that some of these military reinforcements are heading for the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, towards the pro-Russian self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Moscow announced on March 30 that it would concentrate its military efforts in the region.
Columns of armoured vehicles and military trucks stretch on for more than a kilometre, marked with a white letter “V”. Dozens of men in military fatigues sit on top of them, some wearing white armbands – a distinctive indicator often worn by Russian soldiers operating in Ukraine.
This video, posted on Twitter on April 11, was geolocated by @karolgoal to Matveev Kurgan in the Rostov region of Russia. On Google Street View, the intersection where this video begins can be seen, along with the blue sign of a petrol station visible at the end of the video. It is therefore possible to determine that the convoy is heading north, in the direction of the Ukrainian border. The video was filmed 25 kilometres from the Donbas.
Huge Russian Armed Forces column set to move into Donbass for the new upcoming Donbass offensive (this column redeployed from Kiev region): pic.twitter.com/P9dPxNg9cA
— UkraineMaps (@MapsUkraine) April 11, 2022
In a video published on Twitter on April 11, 2022, troops on a military convoy hold the blue cross flag on the Russian Navy as well as the flag of the Russian Empire.
At the end of March, Russia vowed to reduce its military activity around the Ukrainian…
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Source : france24
