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Russia once again he made provocative statements about the international order in space. This country says it is legal to shoot satellite person in a war situation.
Russian private satellites are satellites belonging to non-governmental and commercial institutions. This claim comes at a time when the United States (US) is aggressively using more commercial satellites for intelligence and communications activities.
The statement that these satellites were “legitimate targets” hit during wartime operations was made by the Russian delegation on Monday (September 12) at a meeting of the United Nations Open Working Group (OEWG) on Space Threat Reduction, held in Geneva on 12 September -16 September.
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Indeed, the purpose of this meeting is to discuss how to reduce threats and strengthen cooperation in space through the creation and adoption of new norms and principles of responsible behavior.
This was stated by Konstantin Vorontsov, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russia and the head of the Russian delegation to the United Nations for disarmament.
In a statement released on Monday (9/12), Vorontsov said that the Russian delegation wanted to highlight the very dangerous trend that goes beyond the use of space technology and the threat that has become increasingly real during the events in Ukraine.
Vorontsov said the use of the assets satellite commercial and civilian use by the United States and its allies during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine constitutes indirect involvement in a military conflict. Therefore, quasi-civilian infrastructure can be a legitimate target for an attack.
“At the very least this provocative use of civilian satellites is called into question by the Outer Space Treaty, which regulates the exclusively peaceful use of space, and should be strongly condemned by the international community,” he said.
Provocative comments Russia This comes after the continued Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to send several Starlink terminals to Ukraine to improve Internet coverage and connectivity.
In addition to Starlink, commercial satellite imaging companies such as Planet, Maxar and BlackSky also provided assistance intelligence important by photographing conflict situations from their satellites and sharing them openly.
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