CNN features the Atlantic Council’s report Hiding in Plain Sight, which discusses Russian activity in Ukraine based on photographs, videos, and satellite images, in an article on President Putin’s decision to hide losses of Russian troops in peacetime:
The Kremlin admits that Russians fight alongside separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, but says that they do so as volunteers.
But “Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine,” a report published Thursday by the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank, says “overwhelming and indisputable” evidence shows Russia’s involvement in the fighting.
“Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government’s own making,” the report says, citing satellite images and open source materials as proof.