The SBU seized topographic maps of the Russian army at the site of the temporarily occupied districts of the Kharkiv region. These were the documents of the motorized rifle battalion of the 138th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade, reported SBU press service.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine defeated this brigade at the end of March near the Kharkiv ring road in the direction of the village of Stary Saltiv.
On the maps of the occupiers, the Saltivskyi housing estate of Kharkov, which was built up since the beginning of the 70s of the last century, is completely absent. The Travyanske and Murom reservoirs, built in the seventies, are also missing. And the state border between Ukraine and Russia is drawn with a ballpoint pen, since it was not on the maps at all.
And although the cards have modern registration numbers and even a seal of secrecy, upon closer inspection you can see that they were made in 1969.
According to the SBU, the Topographic Service of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation, headed by Colonel Oleksiy Krasnov, and the Center for Geospatial Information and Navigation of the Russian Federation were engaged in the navigation support of the motorized rifle battalion destroyed in the Kharkiv Region.
On the eve of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these units celebrated the 210th anniversary of Russia's topographical service and declared that they were providing the Russian military command with "state-of-the-art maps" produced allegedly with the help of "the latest mobile navigation and geodetic complexes."
