OSINT= Open Source Intelligence. It’s an intelligence tradecraft of exploiting publicly available information, namely social media, to provide updates on events and collect information. I myself have considered Atlas as an OSINT page for some time due to how I collect information. That being said I consider myself an OSINT analyst rather than a journalist.

Bomb threats popping up around Kiev. They are likely fake to cause panic in conjunction with the cyber attacks.

Maxar imaging showing a pretty significant field hospital set up in Belgorod right on the border with Ukraine at a helicopter base. Via ckoettl on Twitter.

Reuters reporting that two armor columns are moving into the Donetsk region from Russia

*cough* horse shit *cough*

I don’t think “human error” is to blame for the nearly simultaneous and coordinated take down of dozens of credible OSINT accounts as Twitter is being flooded with Russian bots

Things not looking to hot rn

A lot of chatter suggesting tonight is the night

Took down the Blinken post because I got the info from NBC but they horrendously took what he said out of context

Possibly another cyber attack on Ukraine rn

I have a really bad feeling about tonight. Say what you want about things happening or not happening, but this is the first time throughout covering the Ukraine situation where I genuinely feel uneasy about what’s to come.

FORTE12 still lurking

Commercial flights making some weird moves. Either making U turns out of Ukrainian air space or forcing themselves to land

US officials telling ABC that Russian military leaders have begun manning their command centers

Camera signal now dead, still unconfirmed but this may be the start

NOTAM restricting all flights in Ukrainian airspace

Heavy Russian strategic bomber chatter observed on kHz radio waves

It’s happening

Putin has called on all Ukrainian servicemen to surrender