Google removed censorship from satellite images of military installations in Russia. Now each of us can see what Putin’s estates, naval bases and military airfields look like. Even the spaceport was declassified.
“Now everyone can see Russian launchers, ICBM silos, command posts and secret objects with a resolution of up to 0.5 meters per pixel,” the Ukrainian army tweeted, including sample shots.
Internet users looking for more “declassified” Russian locations also point to Vladimir Putin’s bunker.
Thanks to satellite images, the Ukrainian army receives information about the movements of the occupying army. It is also evidence of crimes committed against civilians, which Russia officially denies.
Judgment in Google
A court in Moscow has threatened the American Internet giant Google and the owner of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, with fines for not removing “false” information about the conflict.
Google can be fined up to 12 million rubles (about 133.4 thousand euros), and Wikipedia – 8 million rubles.
Russia’s state media and internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, said on Thursday that Google would be fined for failing to remove content from YouTube that the Kremlin considers to be in violation of the law.