LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s space agency on Tuesday released details of its Western defense headquarters, including the U.S. Pentagon and the NATO summit site, and said Western satellite operators they worked for the enemy of Russia: Ukraine.
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti: “The whole conglomerate of private and state orbital groupings now works exclusively for our enemy.”
Members of the U.S.-led NATO alliance make no secret of the fact that they are sending weapons to help Ukraine resist the invasion of Russia.
The American satellite imagery company Maxar, whose clients include the US Department of Defense, has repeatedly published images that have seized Ukraine and Russia since before the invasion began. in February.
They include images of Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine, at a time when any intention to invade was denied.
“The NATO summit opens in Madrid today, at which Western countries will declare Russia their worst enemy,” Rogozin wrote on his social media channel Telegram.
“Roscosmos publishes satellite photographs of the summit site and the same ‘decision centers’ that support Ukrainian nationalists.”
The publication included Russian satellite imagery of the summit site in Madrid, the Pentagon, the White House in Washington, British government buildings in central London, the German Chancellery and the Reichstag Parliament building in Berlin, the NATO headquarters in Brussels and the residence and residence of the French president. other government buildings in Paris.
“At the same time, we are giving the coordinates of the objects,” Rogozin added. “Just in case.”
The coordinates, expressed in degrees of latitude and longitude, are available free of charge.
Russia describes its invasion as a “special military operation”, saying it had to act to protect Russian speakers from persecution and prevent NATO from using Ukraine to threaten Russia’s security. Kyiv and NATO rule out this reasoning as an unfounded pretext for war.
(Reuters report)