Google Maps/Earth Has Mariupol and Hostomel Updates
Added 2023-04-26 22:04:35 +0000 UTCGoogle has published updated satellite images for Mariupol and Hostomel into Google Maps/Earth.
The Mariupol dataset is from March 19 to March 24 (roughly). Hostomel appears to be from the same time frame.
Mariupol
Tanks on the street in Mariupol: link
This is the Russian state media propaganda event on March 24 handing out "humanitarian aid," which was just the inventory of the Metro Store. A propaganda point made during the state media report was there was no damage to the city and that it was all Western lies. The satellite images show at least 12 mortars hit the store before March 24, and the area around it is devastated. link
This is the adjacent Port City Shopping Mail: link
Mariupol Maternity Hospital Number 3: link
Drama Theater: link
International Committee of the Red Cross Warehouse and Distribution Center: link
Neptune Pool, which was shelled the same day the Drama Theater was bombed and was also used as a bomb shelter. Note the adjacent hospitals have also been shelled: link
Fighting hasn't moved to Azovstal yet, with the steel mill largely intact: link
Mariupol Art School was bombed on March 20, 2022. Up to 400 people were sheltering in the building at the time. In the satellite image, the building is still smoldering, providing the first confirmation the attack did happen: link
Attempt to barricade a street with buses: link
Fighting hasn't reached the main port yet, and the Azburg, which was sunk on April 5, has not been damaged yet: link
Mass graves were dug in the eastern part of the city. Efforts to bury the dead ended around this time because it was too dangerous to collect corpses and work in the cemetery: link
The T-54 tank at the Azovstal Memorial has been removed. Defenders brought the tank back into service as a static indirect fire platform: link
The Central Market area is completely destroyed: link
Epicenter K Shopping Mall completely destroyed: link
Hostomel
Russian defenses and destroyed aircraft: link
Mriya Hangar: link
Abandoned Russian tank scrapes: link
Destroyed military hardware, no way to know if this is Russian or Ukrainian: link
Abandoned Russian positions and the tracks showing the route of retreat: link
Multiple abandoned and destroyed military vehicles. We believe these were reserve Ukrainian tanks that were not prepared for active service and were captured in the open hours of Russia's escalation: link
Comments
March 2022 - Hostomel would be in early April 2022.
2023-04-27 08:36:51 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing the key spots. I had only seen the theater today.
2023-04-27 03:34:43 +0000 UTCSounds like it’s from March 2022. References to some places/things that _were_ still standing. Indeed, a sobering reminder of how Russia liber^H^H^H devastated “Russian mir”.
2023-04-27 00:27:32 +0000 UTCJust so I understand correctly, are these photos taken in March of 2023 still showing the visible damage from the siege of 2022 both for Mariupol and Hostomel?
AnaR737
2023-04-26 22:41:38 +0000 UTCApple Maps still hasn’t updated, so if you have an iOS device you can go on a sobering journey if before-and-afters
2023-04-26 22:35:49 +0000 UTCOh. My. God. At last! Even if it is a year old, it's not *five* years old.
Dana Netherton (he or him)
2023-04-26 22:25:18 +0000 UTC
