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Satellite imagery caught in near-real-time shows the devastation of the civilian areas in Ukraine cities the Russian airstrikes have caused.
Russia has denied targeting civilians, while the West and Ukraine have alleged an increase in airstrikes. The Russian army is getting further frustrated by the prolonged war with its forces bogged down in the outskirts of key cities and supply lines stretched across nearly 100 kilometers of heavy snow.
Widespread destruction
The Russian military has surrounded Mariupol for a week now, hitting the city missiles and artillery. The projectiles are landing on civilian and military targets. A maternity hospital was destroyed on Wednesday, The New York Times reported.
New satellite imagery hosted by Space.Com gives a sense of how widespread the destruction in Mariupol, a city of 500,000 people, has been.
Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite photos taken on March 9 show heavily damaged shopping malls and other stores and debris of homes and other buildings.
Maxar Technologies claimed its WorldView-3 spacecraft captured the images on Wednesday morning that depicted the extensive damage "to the civilian infrastructure in and around the city, including residential homes, high-rise apartment buildings, grocery stores and shopping centers."
The satellite also showed the image of a maternity hospital just before an aerial bombardment destroyed it. The "before" image, image, Space.Com says, can be compared, to a grim "after" photo of the leveled building.
Bomb craters
Maxar's satellites monitoring the invasion in other parts of Ukraine snapped new imagery around capital Kyiv. It showed several views of armoredvehicles moving across snowy terrain northeast of the Antonov Airport in Hostomel.
Some images also showed the Irpin Bridge and bomb craters in a nearby field west of Kyiv.
The company’s images also showed the logistical nightmare that President Vladimir Putin is facing. A 40-mile-long Russian military convoy has been stalled on the outskirts of Kyiv for more than a week in freezing weather in snow-covered terrain.
Picture Credit: Maxar