Russia Threatens Commercial Satellites Providing Support to Ukraine
The Issue Russian officials have recently raised the possibility that Moscow might view commercial satellites that are providing support to Ukraine as legitimate targets for retaliatory strikes. Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of Russia’s delegation at a U.N. arms control panel, has said that the use of Western satellites to help Ukrainian forces on the battlefield is “an extremely dangerous trend” and that “quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike.”
Source: heritage.org