Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin is expecting that the West will go to war in space. “We can see where actually the Western space world is heading. It is heading for war,” he told Rossiya 24 TV in an interview yesterday, reported TASS. Rogozin said that the big U.S. defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing and SpaceX, are connected to a data cloud, gathering visual and radar intelligence in real time in order to “provide the opportunity for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use this data cloud for designated targets, to guide their ballistic missiles or to operate a multiple launch rocket system.”
Referring specifically to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation of satellites, Rogozin said that “tasked by the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Defense, it promptly brought subscriber equipment (to Ukraine) ... and this subscriber equipment is distributed among units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the nationalist battalions,” he said. “It receives a broadband signal, including internet access, and thereby unmanned systems are controlled, and the units are controlled.”
RT, in its coverage, puts Rogozin’s remarks in the context of U.S. Cybercom chief Gen. Paul Nakasone’s June 1 interview with Britain’s Sky News, in which he admitted for the first time that the U.S. was supporting Ukraine by conducting offensive hacking operations.
