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War in Ukraine at 2 years: Destruction seen from space – via radar

  • Written by Sylvain Barbot, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageSatellite radar data shows the complete destruction of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.Xu et al. (2024), CC BY-NC-ND

As soldiers and citizens provide information from the front lines and affected areas of the war in Ukraine – two years old as of Feb. 24, 2024 – in quasi-real time, an active open-source intelligence community has formed to...

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