SBU investigators have established that some of the Russian commanders who invaded Ukraine in February 2022 used topographic maps of Ukraine from 1969, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Monday, citing documents from the Russian command found in the Kharkiv region..

As stated, in. in the documents of the battalion of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade "

“On the maps of the occupiers, there is no Saltovka residential area at all, which has been under construction since the 1970s.. Also, there are no Travyansky and Murom reservoirs on the maps (to the north of Kharkov). The border between Ukraine and Russia was drawn with a ballpoint pen, because it was not on the maps at all,"

Photographs of Russian maps are attached to the published information.

Earlier it was reported that US President Joe Biden, before the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ordered to declassify intelligence data so that US officials were not skeptical about Vladimir Putin's plans..