Yandex obscured a Russian missile battery near Finland
The Russian service “Yandex Maps” superimposed an image of a forest over a Russian missile battery near Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland.
Yle journalists determined that the forest image was copied from another satellite image. Meanwhile, the military facility remains clearly visible on Google, Apple, and Microsoft maps.
This refers to the area near Kronstadt, where the Russian Federation’s naval base and the Kronstadt Shipyard are located. Previously, “Bastion” anti-ship missile systems, as well as radars and reconnaissance equipment, were stationed in this area.
Finnish military expert and former intelligence officer Marko Eklund called this concealment absurd, since satellite images are still accessible to Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
According to him, the decision to camouflage the site was likely an administrative one, but it was carried out so carelessly that the altered image is easy to spot.
Yle speculates that Russia is attempting to conceal a military facility in this way out of fear of possible strikes by Ukrainian drones.
Source: Yle.
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