Embassies moved west as war escalation threatens Ukraine

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 06 April 2020 at 09:30:31 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 06 June 2021 at 15:45:22 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 09 September 2021 from 07:49:53 to 08:32:09 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 10 February 2022 at 16:10:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, border, security, capital city, urban planning, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI (09.09.2020) - War escalation threatens Ukraine after the Russian annexion of Crimea and the war in the Donbas region, ongoing since 2014.
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Many countries, including Australia, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands and Japan have told their citizens to leave Ukraine.
Fig. 2 - S1 (25.05.2021->18.06.2021) - Ukraine capital and largest city, Kyiv, is only 90 km from Belarus where Russian troops are stationed.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (03-10.02.2022) - Lviv lies at west of Ukraine, 60 km from the Polish border of European Union but 190 km away from Belarus.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (06.04.2020) - The embassies of US, Canada, UK, Netherlands & the personnel of NATO will move from Kyiv to Lviv.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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