The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia threatens that the Russian Armed Forces may consider Western commercial satellites used to help Ukraine as their legitimate targets. This was stated by the official representative of the department Kostyantyn Vorontsov at the meeting of the first committee of the UN General Assembly, rosZMI reports.
According to him, the use of civilian infrastructure components in space by the US and other Western countries in armed conflicts, "which was especially evident during the events in Ukraine," is a "dangerous trend."
Vorontsov claims that the actions of the West allegedly provoke "unjustified risks for peaceful activities in space and numerous socio-economic processes on earth, on which the well-being of people, primarily in developing countries, depends."
"Quasi-civilian infrastructure can become a legitimate target for retaliatory strikes," the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry threatened.