{"id":258841,"date":"2023-09-26T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/?p=258841"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:37:42","slug":"tayemni-poligoni-armiyi-rf-na-pivdni-ukr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/en\/investigations\/258841\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian secret training grounds in the South of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since the beginning of the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have regularly turned occupied South of Ukraine into its military base and used civilians as \u201chuman shield\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Russian occupants use illegally \u201cexpropriated\u201d private houses, apartments, resort complexes and hotels as their military barracks and hospitals. Ukrainian factories are exploited to repair Russian damaged military equipment and armored vehicles. Russian troops have also turned Ukrainian <\/b>natural reserves<\/b><\/a> and agricultural lands into military training grounds where Russian soldiers learn how to kill Ukrainians.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The Center for Journalist Investigations identified more than twenty training camps of the Russian Army on occupied lands to the north from the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. Their total area is around 50 thousand hectares.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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We placed all Russian military objects on the online map of Google Maps, in order to understand the scale of environmental crimes of Russian occupants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russian soldiers from brigade \u201cVolki\u201d [Wolves] train on temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, September 2023, screenshot from Russian propagandists\u2019 video\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

The largest Russian official training ground is located 10 kilometers to the east from Berdyansk, between villages of Novpetrivka and Kulykivske, Satellite data demonstrates that Russian occupants have started its use since May 2023. For example, there have been far more trenches for training since that time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n