Ukraine conflict: Kiev reacts to Google's secret exposure, Czech Republic allows 60 citizens to fight, Russia calls 'death sentence'. (Source: codigoespagueti)

Ukrainian online newspaper The Kyiv Independent reported that on November 3, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the country's Security and Defense Council, Andriy Kovalenko, said that Google had recently uploaded updated images on the map that exposed the locations of the Eastern European country's military systems.

In response, Kiev contacted the US tech giant to quickly resolve the issue, but the time "was the weekend and not a priority for Google".

Mr. Kovalenko said that Russian forces were quick to exploit the above images from Google. After the public reaction, a Google representative contacted Ukrainian officials and confirmed that the company was working to fix the problem.

According to Mr. Kovalenko, Ukraine will continue to discuss with Google measures to quickly resolve similar issues in the future.

Regarding the conflict situation, AP news agency quoted Ukrainian officials as saying that Russia used 96 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 1 guided missile to attack Ukraine last weekend.

Accordingly, the Ukrainian Air Force shot down 66 UAVs and missiles. In addition, 27 other UAVs were "missing" in various areas, possibly due to electronic jamming, while 1 UAV flew into Belarusian airspace. So far, there is no information on the number of casualties caused by the attack.

For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 19 Ukrainian UAVs were shot down on the night of November 2 and early morning of November 3 in the three provinces of Rostov, Belgorod and Volgograd. According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, one person was killed on November 3 in the Ukrainian UAV attack on Belgorod province.

In another development, on November 2, Czech President Petr Pavel allowed 60 Czech citizens to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces and participate in the conflict with Russia.

Reacting to this move, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma (Lower House) of Russia Leonid Slutsky called this a "death sentence" for compatriots just because of America's global ambitions and Kiev's fleeting interests.