Central Command announced it was refining its security policies. military bases, a Turkish military patrol, Russian soldiers serving at an air base in Syria, and others, based on Strava maps.Īs a result of the Strava revelations, U.S. In 2018, security researchers used the app’s global heat map of 13 trillion GPS points to identify users working out in remote places worldwide, places that turned out to be secret military or intelligence bases in conflict zones. If Ukrainian secret agents did kill Rzhytsky with the help of Strava, it’s not the first time the app has been used as a source of intelligence. According to the spy agency, known by the acronym GUR, he was killed “around six in the morning” in the Krasnodar Park of Culture and Recreation with a Makarov pistol, he died on the spot, and there was heavy rain, and as a result, no witnesses. Ukrainian intelligence did not take responsibility for the killing, but published an unusually detailed article on its website with details only someone familiar with the murder investigation, or the assassination planning, would know. The last days before the murder, the man behaved as usual.” He apparently did not fear any reprisal for his Navy service, and “did not receive any threats, anonymous messages and did not participate in memorable conflicts, including at work. Baza, a Russian news site on the Telegram social media app, reported that Rzhytsky almost always ran the exact same route, which was published on his public Strava account. Strava allows users to share their exercise routes, trip performance, and how long it takes to complete a route. Rzhytsky was a well-known user of the Strava app, used worldwide by fitness enthusiasts to track exercise. Reuters reports his name appeared on a Ukrainian list of Russian war criminals. The submarine is alleged to have been behind a cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022 that killed 23 civilians. Russia has relied on ships and submarines of the Black Sea fleet as cruise missile-firing ships that are immune to Ukrainian retaliatory action. His last assignment was as commander of the submarine Krasnodar, a Type-636.3 improved Kilo-class diesel electric submarine Krasnodar entered service in 2015 with Russia’s Black Sea fleet. Rzhytsky had recently retired from Russian Navy service. Russian state media later reported an individual armed with a suppressed pistol was detained in the town of Tuapse on the Black Sea on suspicion of involvement in the attack. There were no eyewitnesses to the attack, which took place in heavy rain, though a surveillance camera captured the image of a person of interest in the vicinity of the attack. Getty ImagesĪccording to the Kyiv Post, Rzhytsky was on his morning run on Monday in the city of Krasnodar, Russia, when he was shot several times. The damage was caused by a cruise missile attack from the submarine Krasnodar, which Ukrainian intelligence believes Stanislav Rzhytsky captained at the time. Rescuers clearing away the debris of a heavily damaged building on Jin Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
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