Russia’s Most-Used Map App Is Erasing a Baltic Missile Site that Western Maps Still Show
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In Russia, on Yandex maps, Bal missile complexes were disguised, replacing them with LissFinnish publication Yle noticed that on Yandex satellite maps the positions of coastal missile complexes “Bal” in Kronstadt replaced by an image of the forest, although on Google Maps they are visible. The reasons for this disguise are unknown, and the effectiveness against the Ukrainian Intelligence in question.
Russia's Yandex service. Carta's unusual disguise of a military facility near Kronstadt. Instead of a missile battery, the satellite image now shows a picture of the forest.
Russia’s most-used map app is erasing a Baltic missile site that Western maps still show
Russia's most-used mapping service has digitally hidden a military missile site near Finland by copying a fake forest over it on satellite imagery, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported. Western map services still show the same position, and a Finnish military analyst called the concealment careless and self-defeating. The clumsy edit points to Moscow's growing fear of Ukrainian drones. Ukraine's drones now reach thousands of kilometers into R…
Yandex painted the forest on its maps at the site of the military site, drew attention to the Finnish edition of YLE, and copied fragments of the forest appeared on a satellite image of the surrounding area of Kronstadt at the site where the missile batteries were located.
According to a Finnish military expert, the image processing was done carelessly, reports Yle.
The cover-up method probably has a questionable success, since it was not carried out professionally or completely.
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