Christoph Koettl
@ckoettl.bsky.social
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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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Israel destroys Iranian refueling plane in Mashhad. 747 seems OK 🛰️📷 via Planet Labs (Skysat and Planetscope comparison)
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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JETZT.at @jetzt.at · May 15
"Bei JETZT wollen wir den Blick auf das Wesentliche schärfen", sagt Herausgeber @novak.at im Interview mit @diepressecom.bsky.social. Danke für das Gespräch!
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Haben hier sicher eh schon alle mitbekommen, aber das echt eine spannende Sache. Christo Grozev stößt zu @jetzt.at, sollte es das Team bis 12.6. schaffen, ihr Mitgliederziel von 5000 zu erreichen. Auf die Geschichten von Grozev bin ich schon neugierig. www.diepresse.com/19755194
Aufdecker Christo Grozev stößt zu neuem Medium „Jetzt“
Das neue Onlinemedium von Radiomacher Florian Novak soll im September starten. Investigativjournalist Christo Grozev wird die Redaktion als Reporter und Ausbilder verstärken.
www.diepresse.com
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JETZT.at @jetzt.at · Jun 3
Große Verstärkung für unsere Redaktion: Christo Grozev
@christogrozev.bsky.social – einer der bekanntesten Investigativjournalisten Europas – wird Reporter und Ausbilder bei JETZT.
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Dramatic satellite imagery of the glacier collapse in #Blatten, #Switzerland. A small lake started to form where the river that was running through the village is now blocked. 🛰️ 📷 via Maxar
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A UN panel recently found that Israel follows a “concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination” go.nyt.net/Lp4S9D26TFKZ...
UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks on Gaza health facilities and treatment of detainees, hostages
Hebrew version
www.ohchr.org
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The IDF, investigating itself, said the soldiers responded to an “immediate and tangible threat.” All the men killed were unarmed, and the IDF directly targeted them with prolonged fire for at least six minutes.
idfanc.activetrail.biz/ANC200425932...
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A major difference to other attacks against healthcare in #Gaza: One of the medics filmed it. Two medics who were documenting with their phones were still alive when they stopped recording and the IDF closed in.The Israeli forces got so close that the soldiers could be heard shouting.
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On March 23, a group of first responders in #Gaza went searching for their missing colleagues. Once they found them, the IDF opened fire, slowly closed in, and killed most of them. Our newest investigation breaks down the attack—an apparent war crime—minute by minute www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
www.nytimes.com
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Our investigation naming & linking RSF commanders to war crimes in Sudan was nominated for the #NewsEmmys. 🙏

Watch it here: youtu.be/H231YlstDKk

By @sanjanamv.bsky.social @ckoettl.bsky.social Natalie Reneau @declanwalsh.bsky.social Aaron Byrd with @cen4infores.bsky.social & Ayin Sudan.
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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...
Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says
Live drone footage allows Ukraine to observe what it views as war crimes unfold in real time, soldiers say.
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A VERY close look at #China's new landing ships
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/w...
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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...
Image shows a black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes    Image gives a wider view of the village and the black and grey scorched area of roughly 10,000 square meters encompassing a market on the outskirts of Toura in north Darfur that was hit in Sudanese military airstrikes. Image via Planet Labs.
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US to impose sanctions on #Sudan RSF leader Hemeti. US found that RSF committed genocide, according to Reuters reuters.com/world/us-imp...
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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
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Tracking War Crimes in Sudan
Inside a six-month Times investigation.
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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
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.
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