The best part of Averyanov's cover identities is that one of his passports was under the name Оверянов (instead of Аверьянов). Dropping the myagky znak is basically the height of espionage tradecraft.

Great thread from Christiaan here detailing US military aviation movements into Haiti

Twelve soldiers were wounded after being stung by wasps in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today.

The incident occured amid an operation by the Gaza Division's Southern Brigade in the border area, near the community of Nirim.

A tank had driven over a large wasp nest, leading…

New Visual Investigations piece from Christoph Koettl on the nuclear site near Asipovichy in Belarus. Along with his typical insane analysis of recent satellite imagery, he busts out some declassified images from 1984 (!) showing the Soviet-era missile storage.

nytimes.com/2024/05/10/wor…

Russia wants to store nuclear warheads in Belarus, a first since end of Soviet Union. I went back decades to dissect the site the Kremlin has apparently chosen. HD 🛰️📷 by @maxar, insights by Bill Moon Hans Kristensen William Alberque Dr. Jeffrey Lewis Michael Duitsman
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Happy two-year anniversary to this actor playing me in a Japanese news show

Images from the ground and Planet's satellites show how the market at Nuseirat Camp has been filled with refugees since the beginning of the IDF's Rafah campaign.

Photograph: May 8
Satellite imagery (via Planet) from April 17 and May 8.
Location: google.com/maps/@31.44672…

After yet more rumors about his poor health and apparent frailty, Ramzan Kadyrov poses for this video of him dragging a jeep

Video released by the IDF shows their soldiers in Rafah (mostly near the Rafah Crossing / Shokat area). There is a D9 bulldozer at 0:10 in the clip. Much of the satellite imagery from May 7th shows some of the signs of combat engineers clearing neighborhoods in the area.