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The Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research center, has released the report, which provides "ample evidence" that the Russian army is involved in the armed conflict in Donbas, based on publicly available data, such as Google map services, Ukrinform reports citing BBC Russian Service reports.

"The working group of the Atlantic Council has undertaken to prove the presence of Russian troops in the war zone using the open source data. The working group involves several experts, including former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst," reads the article.

The Russian authorities have not yet commented on the report of the Atlantic Council entitled "Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine."

Having analyzed the photographs of large craters in Ukraine and videos of rocket launches on nearby Russian territory, the Atlantic Council experts concluded that Russian units had fired across the Ukrainian border.

The report shows the network of Russian military camps that have sprouted near the Ukrainian border and have been used to send Russian weapons and troops into eastern Ukraine. The camps, the report notes, are in plain view to 'anyone with access to Google Earth or Google Maps.'

The study was undertaken as an attempt to refute the version of events, put forward by Russian official. In addition, the report contains a number of recommendations to the "Western Governments", namely "to send much more forces and resources to expose and counter Putin's war in Ukraine."

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