The parliamentarian explained that commercial civilian satellites performing combat missions could become "legitimate targets for retaliatory destruction."
“The Russian Foreign Ministry warned about this quite recently ... If Russian warnings are ignored, as was the case with the requirements of security guarantees almost a year ago, the West’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict could provoke combat activity in near-Earth orbit,” Slutsky wrote in his Telegram- channel.
According to him, the use of appropriate devices for transmitting data of the Armed Forces of Ukraine violates international agreements on peaceful space.
Earlier, the ex-general director of the Roscosmos state corporation, the head of the Tsarskie Wolves military advisers group, Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with RTD, spoke about hundreds of Western spacecraft that are now working for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to a member of the Russian hacker group RaHDit, US intelligence is supplying Ukraine with radar data and satellite imagery, including Russian territory.
State Duma Deputy from Crimea Mikhail Sheremet considered it necessary to deactivate the NATO satellite constellation, which collects data for Ukrainian troops.