Overview
- The photos, circulating since 2024 and resurfacing publicly on October 27, 2025, show maps behind Colonel Valentin Manko alongside his dog.
- Screenshots reported by Ukrainian and German outlets depict maps marked as secret, front-line positions, program names, and account identifiers.
- Manko rejects wrongdoing, calling the imagery annotated Google maps rather than classified material, and he has removed the contentious posts from Facebook.
- Local reports claim a now-deleted video displayed the restricted Delta system, a point that remains unverified in open reporting.
- Ukraine’s military leadership has not issued a substantive public response as experts caution that such disclosures could benefit Russian intelligence and electronic-warfare units near Pokrovsk and in parts of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia.