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1/ Looks like yet another air defense ring is being built around Moscow, this time with S-400 surface-to-air missile systems. I found the new position near Moscow State University – right next to the 'Innopraktika' Foundation, headed by Putin's daughter, Katerina Tikhonova.
1/ Together with @jembob (well, mostly him😅), we found 15+ new towers within a 50 km radius of Putin’s Valdai residence, forming an 'outer ring' facing south (toward Ukraine).
6/ My dynamic map of air defenses guarding Putin's Valdai residence can be found here: google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…
7/ Read the full story here: svoboda.org/a/vokrug-reziden…
Nothing to see here, just a cute hatch lock on a Leopard 2A4 tank. Who can tell me what this hatch is for? (a honest question!).
1/2 The number of confirmed air defense towers and ramps in Alabuga, the main production facility for Russian strike drones, has reached 33, as a new @planet high-res image taken today, Oct. 21, shows. Ukraine hasn’t attempted to strike the site since June 2025.
2/2 My dynamic map of air defense positions in and around Alabuga can be found here: google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1… @jembobineuse
1/3 How many air defense towers does Putin need to cover his Valdai residence (the green pin), where his sons and their mother, Alina Kabaeva, are known to spend quite a lot of time? With @jembobineuse’s new findings, it’s now 12. google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m… xitter.cf/jembobineuse/status/19…
I have another confirmed one in Valdai (south of airport)
57.954779, 33.243538
Streetview: yandex.com/maps/10907/valday…
2 Read the full thread above 🔼Check the map here ▶️google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…
Thanks to @jembobineuse, I was able to add four new air-defense towers to my map of SHORADs around Putin’s Valdai residence (google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…). The closest one is now just 400 m from his main house. 31 tower in total now + two S-400 positions.
First satellite images (by @planet) showing the aftermath of Ukraine’s Oct. 11 strike on a Yandex data center near Vladimir, Russia, which caused major internet service outages across the country. At least five buildings were affected, four of them sustaining significant damage.
1/4 The 22nd Tank Storage Base, 500 km from the NATO border, is being replenished with new T-90M tanks, as seen in a comparison of @planet satellite images from October 2025 and October 2026.
3/4 The 349th storage base, northern part, significant increase of vehicles. Oct. 15 2026 vs Oct. 2025.
4/4 Read the full story about Russia replenishing its depleted tank and other equipment storage bases here: svoboda.org/a/zapasy-dlya-no…
🗼Some recent updates to my Moscow and Moscow Oblast post-war SHORAD map: a quick revision of 1st-wave ramps (many now abandoned in favor of towers), more 'Tors' seen on both new and old towers, and several newly identified positions. google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…
I doubt there's anything worth salvaging at the Rostov oil terminal's tank farm after the Ukrainian strike on Oct. 10. Last @planet image taken today noon local time.