Western satellites could be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said.
Russia could shoot down Western commercial satellites should they be used to assist Ukraine in the war, a Russian Foreign Ministry official was reported as saying on Monday.Quasi-civilian Western satellites could be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike, Vladimir Ermakov, head of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, said, according to state news agency Tass, citing an interview with Russian journalists.
Vorontsov said at the time that the use of 'commercial, infrastructure elements in outer space for military purposes' by the West constitutes an 'extremely dangerous trend.''These States do not realize that such actions in fact constitute indirect participation in military conflicts,' he added. 'Quasi-civilian infrastructure may become a legitimate target for retaliation.'The official told a U.N.
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