In June 2014, Russian soldier Stanislav Tarasov posted on a social-media site a photo of himself standing in front of a military convoy against a nondescript background of hills, fields, and scattered houses. It probably never occurred to him that such an innocuous image could become part of an increasingly detailed case being assembled in a bid to prove the Russian government has been lying when it denies militarily involvement in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Digital investigators try to disperse fog of war in Ukraine
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along destroyed houses in Shyrokyne, Donetsk Oblast on June 29, 2015.
