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ckoettl.bsky.social
Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC. https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

There's been a spike in Russian forces executing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the past year – we tried to unpick the reasons why, with Kim Barker, Yurii Shyvala + many more www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A VERY close look at #China's new landing ships www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

New high res satellite imagery shows the extent of damage to a market in Toura, northern Darfur after the Sudanese Armed Forces bombed it on Monday. One witness counted four airstrikes. Images via @planetlabs.bsky.social (thanks @ckoettl.bsky.social) Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Sudan military kills dozens in bombing of market in Darfur. The likely war crime is a grim reminder of the brutal toll caused by both sides in the two-year civil war. Latest w/ @declanwalsh.bsky.social, Abdalrahman Altayeb, @ckoettl.bsky.social & Abubakr Abdelbagi www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

US to impose sanctions on #Sudan RSF leader Hemeti. US found that RSF committed genocide, according to Reuters reuters.com/world/us-imp...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Atrocities on camera: We spent months analyzing videos & satellite images to link specific RSF commanders to likely international crimes in #Sudan. Reporting led by my newest colleague @sanjanamv.bsky.social nyti.ms/4fAggBL

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments