Ukraine Suspects Russia’s Missiles Guided by US Commercial Satellite Imagery

This is a serious allegation! How to prevent Russians from abusing Western satellite services?

"... A Ukrainian military source told me he believes that Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. He says the sequence is clear: A satellite snaps pictures of a site, then some days or weeks later a missile lands. Sometimes another satellite is sent to capture additional images afterward, perhaps to check the extent of the damage. “The number of coincidences, where the images are followed by strikes, is too high to be random,” the source told me. (I agreed not to name him because he is not authorized to speak publicly.) ..."

Ukraine Suspects Russia’s Missiles Guided by US Commercial Satellite Imagery The US multi-platform publisher The Atlantic cites an unnamed Ukrainian military source who suspects that Russia is selecting cruise missile targets using US satellite imagery.

A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.