Google has published updated images of the territory of Ukraine in its Google Maps service. These images show the location of military systems of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. About said Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Kovalenko.
«Imagine the situation. Google posts updated images on maps that show the location of our military systems (I won’t specify).
We contact them to fix it quickly, but it’s their weekend. No time for that)
The Russians are already actively dispersing these images»,” Andriy Kovalenko wrote on Telegram.
Publicizing this breach on the part of the search giant worked. Representatives of the company promptly contacted the Ukrainian authorities and began work to remedy the situation. This was also reported by Andriy Kovalenko. About an hour and a half passed between the first and second messages.
«After the public reaction, Google representatives contacted us and said that they were already working on correcting the situation with the images of the deployment of our military systems», ─ wrote Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation.
He added that in the future they plan to discuss options on how to solve any problems promptly in the future.