at least 10 russian su-34 strike bombers. general, what do you make of this, satellite images coming out on a day where we re going to pull troops out where they have done their military exercises. it s like the magician, wash both hands, it s the hand you don t see that s got stuff going on. what s happening in cry imea, a an intel guy i would go to the boss and said, i don t want to try and confirm this and only look at this course of action we need to worry about but i want to worry about this for a second. we need to do something about it. he s got strike bombers, the sus in crimea. they weren t there before. he s got hero helo, transport and attack, and the naval task force in the vicinity of crimea in the black sea. what that tells me is this reinforces the notion of increasing the presence in the dombas, and expanding it into the direction of the river.
attack aircraft landed at an air base, and they have done so over the past few days, they see that satellite activity. that base had been vacant until now until at least 2003. i ll show you the same base in november of last year. you can see the shift, and 70 miles from the ukraine coast, another satellite image here shows at least ten russian su-34 strike bombers now in place. new video released today by the russian ministry of defense showing multiple rocket launchers conducting artillery drills in crimea. putin is saying one thing, saying he wants diplomacy, pulling back troops now that they have done their military exercises, but he was purposely showing us images of something extremely different, and people here are telling me they are preparing for the worst, making sure they and their families are protected. i spoke today with an experienced shooter, practicing at a gun range. he and the group of men you see here, they are prepared, they say, to serve as a militia, as
ukraine s southern coast. just off the coast, the russian defense ministry s media outlet is reporting on the black sea navy drills which involve some 30 ships. in satellite images, maxar also detected the russian air force deployed at least ten su-34 strike bombers to an airport near kraznadar in southern russia. the airfield is some 70 miles across the sea of azov from the ukrainian coast. it will be a few days before new satellite images and video can confirm that at least part of the force of 130,000 russian troops have indeed moved away from ukraine. for now, a substantial force on land, in the air and at sea remains on three sides of ukraine. the most recent u.s. intelligence assessment as described to me was that, as of last night, russian forces were moving forward and moving crucially into combat positions. that is positions where they
A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet was shot down earlier on Friday near the city of Volnovakha in eastern Ukraine, according to The Kyiv independent, a Ukraine media outlet.