The Times’s Visual Investigations team analyzed dozens of battlefield radio transmissions between Russian forces during an initial invasion of the town of Makariv, outside Kyiv. They reveal an army struggling with logistical problems and communication failures.
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Hi, I’m Christiaan, one of the reporters on this story. A few days into the invasion of Ukraine, my colleague noticed that ham radio hobbyists were listening in on Russian military radio traffic. Given that there were hundreds of hours of recordings, we decided to focus on the radio transmissions from the first 24 hours of the Russian assault on Makariv, a strategic town west of Kyiv. We verified that these were Russian troops speaking by linking the radio exchanges with visuals we geolocated and timestamped in Makariv, and interviews with local residents in Makariv and surrounding places including Kopyliv and Motyzhyn. Combined, the story gives an unvarnished window into the operations of an invading army. Let us know if you have any questions below and we’ll try to answer. Thanks for watching.
You didn’t pay for any of the footage that you stole for this.
@waytospergtherebro welcome to the internet.
Great work!! One of the best reporting of this war, very valuable and something to be archived in its History.
@waytospergtherebro Explain “stealing” something that is openly available to everyone and that can be consumed infinitely?
Thank you for your work, collecting these kinds of direct sources and giving full context are the most effective counter to Russian propaganda.
no sympathy for russians
widespread corruption + growth of organized crime + fraud of social benefits + economy that does not meet any standards + half of the citizens still speak only Russian + forgery of documents = UKRAINE
YOU ARE LIARS!!! russia invaded Ukraine, killing people every day and destroying cities.
and here we are, 4 years later, watching russia being set on fire every night while another captured kilometer of fields somewhere in the east celebrated by invader as “crushing defeat of nato war machine”. interesting.