Google Maps is a navigation tool and provides users with satellite imagery, aerial pictures and panoramic street photos.
Kovalenko did not specify which of Ukraine’s military sites were exposed by Google. He added in a follow-up post on Telegram that representatives for the tech giant had contacted Kyiv after a public outcry and said they were “working on correcting the situation.”
Google scaled down its activities in Russia after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, though its services, including Google Maps, remain available in the country. Its Russian website reportedly shows Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that Moscow invaded and annexed in 2014, as part of Russia.
Google did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment.
