The Russian Foreign Ministry says they will be “legitimate targets.”
” for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commercial US satellites, if they are used to help Ukraine, said Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Kostyantyn Vorontsov at the meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.
“Especially would like to emphasize an extremely dangerous trend that was clearly revealed in the course of events in Ukraine. It is about the involvement of the US and its allies in civil infrastructure components in space, in particular commercial ones, in armed conflicts. Quasi-civilian infrastructure may turn out to be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike,” the Russian state agency TASS quoted the official as saying.
According to the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the West “puts the sustainability of peaceful space activities at an unjustified risk”.
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