“The first destruction was recorded in 1961. And since that time, about 250 destruction has already been recorded, ”RIA Novosti quotes Kolyuk.

He added that space objects were destroyed as a result of their explosions or after colliding with other objects.

Earlier, the representative of the main center of space intelligence of the Russian Defense Ministry, Roman Fattakhov, said that the Russian space monitoring system recorded 23 dangerous debris approaches to satellites with satellites in 2018, one of which was with the ISS.