Russia’s most-used map app is erasing a Baltic missile site that Western maps still show
The concealment appears only on Yandex, leaving Google, Apple, and Microsoft to reveal exactly what Moscow wanted buried.
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Third one down: Ukraine keeps destroying Russia’s $1.8 million Starlink jammers
Satellite imagery places the latest confirmed hit at an FSB border base in Gelendzhik on Russia’s Black Sea coast.
Russia’s Arctic bases sit near-naked as air defenses vanish to guard Moscow and refineries burning inland
Satellite images show S-300 and S-400 batteries gone from long-held sites near Rogachevo and the nuclear-submarine city of Severodvinsk, RFE/RL says.
Ukraine says it has Donetsk airport under “fire control.” Satellite images show Russia building there anyway
Russia is enlarging launch pads at Donetsk Airport for its jet-powered Geran-3 drones, new satellite imagery shows.
Russian maps blurred 119 of Russia’s own military sites in the Nordics and Baltics—and gave away their locations
The objects blurred on Yandex run from air bases and shipyards to nuclear-weapons facilities, reporters from four countries found.
Ukraine frontline mapping startup draws €7.2 million from Axon and European defense funds
Taser maker and Estonian state fund lead round for company born from battlefield trench-mapping.
Russia begins renovating Soviet-era garrison 160 km from Finnish border, satellite images reveal
New photographs obtained by Finland’s YLE show trees cleared, military trucks arriving, and construction underway at a long-abandoned base in Petrozavodsk as Moscow prepares infrastructure to eventually host up to 15,000 soldiers in the Republic of Karelia.
Satellite imagery confirms Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles scored 4/4 hits Russian Skif-M factory tied to Su-57 production (PHOTOS, MAP)
Contrary to Russian claims that only one missile reached the target, the image shows all four hit the Skif-M facility in Russia's Belgorod on 23 September 2025.
Black crater in the snow: Satellite images show erased Russian depot in occupied Debaltseve
New satellite imagery reveals a scorched crater where a key Russian ammunition storage site stood days ago.
Grave Stone and Cheese Board are dead in Ukraine’s elite forces’ attack on city housing Russia’s relocated Black Sea Fleet
Ukraine responds to Russian attacks on civilians with an assault on military objects.
Ukraine destroys thermobaric weapons facility that fed drone strikes on its cities, satellite images confirm
A 7 July strike lit up the Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant, a core supplier of Shahed drone explosives.
Mi-8 military helicopter blown up, Mi-35 wrecked as Ukraine hits Russia’s Bryansk airport, media says
Last night, explosions and secondary detonation were reported at the facility, evidently used militarily.
Destruction at Russia’s Murom military factory confirmed by satellite data
Satellite imagery confirms that one warehouse at the ammo ignition systems facility, previously reported hit on Apr. 30, no longer stands.
Satellite images reveal extensive damage to Russia’s 51st GRAU arsenal in Vladimir Oblast
The major ammunition depot 530 km from Ukraine caught fire and was rocked by massive explosions on 22 April.
Satellite images confirm destruction of missile warehouse at Russia’s Shaykovka airbase
Ukrainian drones targeted the facility on 31 March.
Vital Maxar satellite imagery restores critical access to Ukraine
The restoration of Ukrainian access to the GEGD satellite imagery program comes one day after US-Ukraine negotiations resulted in the lifting of military aid restrictions.
Maxar confirms US government blocked Ukrainian access to satellite data (UPDATED)
Soldiers in Kursk and near Pokrovsk described lost functionality in battle software, though some called it "an inconvenience" rather than a blow, per WP.
Satellite image reveals damage to Russian oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai
RFE/RL shared a satellite image, showing that Ukraine's 5 February air attack and the subsequent fire at Albashneft oil refinery in southern Russia damaged two fuel tanks.
Russia expands military installations near Finnish border, YLE reveals
Russian bases near Finland expand facilities, but experts say focus remains on the Ukraine invasion, not building forces along the Finnish border.
Euronews: Satellite data strengthens war crime cases against Russia in Ukraine
Satellite imagery serves as crucial evidence in Ukrainian war crimes investigations, with companies like Planet Labs providing images that help prosecutors establish attack timelines.