A court in Moscow has for the first time ordered Yandex to block access to maps and photographs of the infrastructure of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries due to the threat of attacks by Ukrainian drones.
My guess is that the drones that they’re using don’t have a payload large enough to obliterate an entire refinery, and that they’re doing more-precise targeting of things at a refinery than “hit the refinery somewhere”. If Russia could block access to all satellite imagery of the refinery, it’d probably have an impact.
The problem, though, as others have pointed out, is that Ukraine probably doesn’t depend on Yandex-provided satellite imagery.
My guess is that the drones that they’re using don’t have a payload large enough to obliterate an entire refinery, and that they’re doing more-precise targeting of things at a refinery than “hit the refinery somewhere”. If Russia could block access to all satellite imagery of the refinery, it’d probably have an impact.
The problem, though, as others have pointed out, is that Ukraine probably doesn’t depend on Yandex-provided satellite imagery.