March 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—As part of the Trump administration’s March 5 decision to suspend U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) announced on March 7 that it has stopped providing Ukraine with satellite imagery. Since 2022, the NGA has “provided Ukraine electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from multiple commercial remote sensing satellites,” according to SpaceNews.
The Ukrainian military, artillery and drone units in particular, had heavily relied on the NGA service. “Such intelligence had allowed Ukraine to use the U.S.-provided HIMARS systems to launch ATACMS, a longer-range U.S. guided-missile system, and strike targets deep inside occupied Ukrainian territory or inside of Russia,” reported the Washington Post.
An anonymous Ukrainian military officer said that the intelligence sharing pause, “will speed up the assault operations because the logistics can be much, much closer to the contact line.”
