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Russian war journalism fail

It is worth a note that this may be down to the famous Russian Journalist Sasha Kots, who published images less than a day ago of this mortar firing at Ukrainian forces at precisely the same location.

It is NOT "precisely the same location".  It is between two buildings in both the report & the video of the strike, but the alignment of the buildings don't agree.  In the overhead view of the strike, you see girders stick out of the burned-out building on the left, which aren't seen in the reporter's shots.  Most telling is that in the report, the mortar is on an asphalt roadway while in the overhead view of the strike, there is no such roadway.

It may be the same mortar using the same tactic of hiding between buildings, but it is between a different set of buildings.  The journalist's pictures may have allowed someone to know its precise location when the pictures were taken, and it may have been located nearby by a drone.

[M T]

Russian war journalism fail

It is worth a note that this may be down to the famous Russian Journalist Sasha Kots, who published images less than a day ago of this mortar firing at Ukrainian forces at precisely the same location.

It is NOT "precisely the same location".  It is between two buildings in both the report & the video of the strike, but the alignment of the buildings don't agree.  In the overhead view of the strike, you see girders stick out of the burned-out building on the left, which aren't seen in the reporter's shots.  Most telling is that in the report, the mortar is on an asphalt roadway while in the overhead view of the strike, there is no such roadway.

It may be the same mortar using the same tactic of hiding between buildings, but it is between a different set of buildings.  The journalist's pictures may have allowed someone to know its precise location when the pictures were taken, and it may have been located nearby by a drone.