Satellite images released Thursday show new military deployments in Crimea, Belarus and western Russia near Ukraine amid growing concern that Russia could try to invade its neighbor.
Maxar Technologies released the images, which were taken Wednesday and Thursday.
Several show more than 500 troop tents and hundreds of vehicles at Oktyabrskoye airfield, an abandoned airfield north of Simferopol, the second largest city on the Crimean peninsula. Additional images show artillery deployments and training activity, as well as a new deployment in Slavne, also on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Military vehicles and helicopters were also identified at an airfield near Gomel, Belarus, about 15 miles from the border with Ukraine. Troops are also deployed near Rechitsa, Belarus, which is about 28 miles from the borer with Ukraine.
Additional equipment has arrived at the Kursk training area in western Russia since Maxar first released images of that site in December.
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