According to Google Maps, Putin has revealed all of Russia’s military sites

After crucial locations were purportedly ‘revealed’ on Google Maps, Vladimir Putin’s soldiers have been left out in the open

The Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Twitter that the search engine had provided access to spectacular images depicting key strategic sites of the Russian troops.

A nuclear weapons storage station in the city of Murmansk in northwest Russia, as well as aviation bases in the country’s east, are believed to be viewable online.

The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetso may also be spotted, as well as Russia’s powerful Su-57 fighter plane.

According to the Twitter account @ArmedForcesUkr, which has previously been quoted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Google took an active choice to unblur the images.

Luliia Mendel, the former spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, used the allegations to applaud Google, writing: “Google exposed on its maps all strategic and military objects of the Russian Federation.” Google, thank you.”

“Google Maps has ceased obscuring Russia’s hidden military & strategic sites,” the open-source intelligence account OSINT UK tweeted.

“Anyone in the public is welcome to watch.” All secret Russian infrastructure, including ICBMs, command stations, and more, will be open sourced with a resolution of 0.5 metres per pixel.”

Google, on the other hand, denies that any alterations were made, claiming that the photographs were never blurred or hidden from the public eye.

“We haven’t made any blurring modifications to our satellite images in Russia,” an Alphabet spokesman said in response to OSINT UK’s assertions.

Some Twitter users speculated that the photographs might be many years old and may not reflect the Russian military’s current construction.

Others have pointed out that Western intelligence services are likely to have their own satellite monitoring technologies and will not employ a commercial platform.

“It’s ludicrous to presume the government doesn’t have much better satellites they control with near live coverage of Russia,” one Twitter user said.

However, OSINT UK has maintained that Google unblurred the photos, claiming that the “unintentional modifications” were caused by “increased demand for 3rd party satellite imagery” in Russia as a result of the war.