Upper panel: EPIC PN count map of Kes 69 obtained in the 3−10 keV band. The bin size is 4′′. The white circles indicate point-like sources detected in this image; the red contours denote intensity of the 1.4 GHz emission from the NVSS survey (Condon et al. 1998); the green contours denote the ¹²CO (J = 1−0) intensity in the 80−81 km s^-1 velocity range (see lower panel). The yellow cross denotes the position of the hard X-ray excess seen with INTEGRAL ISGRI. Middle panel: adaptively smoothed (to a signal-to-noise ratio of 16) and vignetting-corrected EPIC count-rate image (MOS-equivalent counts per second per bin) of Kes 69 in the 1−3 keV band. The black rectangle is the region used to extract the spectrum of the diffuse emission. The superimposed hard X-ray sources and the radio contours are the same as in the upper panel. Lower panel: ¹²CO (J = 1−0) intensity map in the velocity interval 80−81 km s^-1 (linearly interpolated to a resolution of 024 (see Zhou et al. 2009). The contour levels are at 40%, 60%, and 80% of the maximum.