On July 10, russian media reported that Stanislav Rzhitsky, the deputy chief of the municipal mobilization department and commander of the Krasnodar submarine, was fatally shot in Krasnodar.
According to InformNapalm, it was quite easy to track down Rzhitsky because the captain regularly shared the routes of his runs in the public tracking application for athletic activities called Strava.
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Furthermore, several published screenshots indicate that Rzhitsky was essentially running the same route, significantly simplifying the task for an unknown individual who had plans to eliminate him.
The “spy app” was already discussed back in 2018 when Australian student Nathan Racer noticed unusual activity on the app in regions near Syria and the Sahara, suggesting the presence of security forces near military bases.
Consequently, military experts and analysts paid attention to the application. One of them, for example, identified the names of 573 individuals who were running around the parking lot of the British intelligence headquarters every morning.
At that time, Western journalists also noticed that Strava could be useful for assessing russian military forces in the east of Ukraine. In particular, the map displayed the movement of russian military personnel near Maryinka, located in the Donetsk region.
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