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NATO’s Russian troop build-up satellite images ‘show 2013 drills’
►http://rt.com/news/nato-satellite-images-drills-712

NATO satellite photos show Russian military buildup near Ukraine
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-photos-idUSBREA391DA20140410

An official in the Russian military general staff said the NATO satellite photographs were taken in August 2013, state-run news agency RIA reported.

“These photographs that were distributed by NATO depict units of Russian forces of the Southern Military District which conducted various exercises last summer, some of them near the border with Ukraine,” RIA quoted what it said was a high-level official in the Russian general staff as saying.

A NATO official responded that the images were from March and April this year and each image showed the date it was taken.

Satellite Photos of Iran Doubted | Consortiumnews
►http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/12/satellite-photos-of-iran-doubted

News stories about satellite photographs suggesting efforts by Iran to “sanitize” a military site that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said may have been used to test nuclear weapons have added yet another layer to widely held suspicion that Iran must indeed be hiding a covert nuclear weapons program.

But the story is suspect, in part because it is based on evidence that could only be ambiguous, at best. The claim does not reflect U.S. intelligence, and a prominent think tank that has published satellite photography related to past controversies surrounding Iran’s nuclear program has not found any photographs supporting it.