said, in kharkiv further to the east. sam, i know you ve been there a number of days. do you feel there a sense of urgency ability a potential russian invasion that we do not see here in the capital? jim, i ve just come back from standing right on the border with russia, some 30 miles north of here, some 50 miles from here is the russian city of bellow grad. the first guard s tank army of the russian armed forces is reportedly being massed there. according to the geo location of a lot of the movement we ve done of the very significant movement of tanks, surface missiles, helicopters, some four or five miles from the location i was standing in. the atmosphere was one of complete indifference, i have to say, on the side of ukrainians. i talked to women in a village
google geo location. we used to see each other with my wife on google maps, and that morning i noticed that there was unusual geo location between kyiv and their ping and then 20 minutes later her phone moved to another location, to a hospital in kyiv and i suspected something was wrong. and i asked friends to come to the hospital and find out whether there were any bad news, and then twitter, there was news on twitter, there was mortar shelling and that family died, two children, their mother and
immediate aftermath of a russian military strike on an apartment complex. cnn put together this report to show you how the actual process of geo location works. central media footage has played a key role in our coverage of ukraine making us able to identify military movements and also possible attacks, but it s also really important that we understand the footage is real and accurate and current and so one of the ways we ve been doing this is by gio locating that footage. is here example of how our team has been doing that. it was an alarming scene, russian helicopters flying suspiciously low over an area a few kilometers outside of kyiv with large dak plumes of smoke rising, the man filming says about 20 of them flew by. at the time this video started circulating on social media february 24th it was not yet confirmed the russians were anywhere near kyiv.
he told me. reporter: as a parent, we can t imagine your loss above all losing your children. could you tell me about them? translator: i called this online. we used to be in our family, we used to use google location. i used to see my wife on google maps. and that mourning i noticed there was an unusual geo location between kyiv and irpin. and then 20 minutes later, her phone moved to another location
constant stream of vehicles, dropping off and picking up body bags. they contain both soldiers but also civilians. their families wait outside to identify their loved ones. just unconscionable. and at this port on the black sea, the military is just starting to bury the soldiers who made the sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice. it was one of their first targets of russia s invasion last month. of course, the tragedy is not limited to the military action. one man described the moment he found out his family had perished. translator: i call this is war on line, because we used to be in our family, we used to use google geo location. and we used to see each other with my wife on google maps. and that s morning. i notice there was a an unusual chill occasion between keefe and the european.