Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu himself confirmed the test of a new Russian weapon against satellites, but his ministry called the statements of State Department and Pentagon officials “hypocritical.” the cosmonauts of the International Space Station and called for “international rules to be drawn up that will guide the international community in the conquest of space.”
The Russian weapon “hit” an old satellite with “surgical” precision. “There is no threat to space activity from the debris that was caused,” said the Russian defense minister.
“The Russian Ministry of Defense has successfully carried out a test, as a result of which the inactive Russian spacecraft ‘Tselina-D’, which has been in orbit since 1982, has been hit,” the ministry said in a statement. are fully aware that the fragments formed at the time of the tests and their orbital parameters did not, nor will they, pose a threat to orbital stations, spacecraft and space activity “, but that they were registered in its control system Russia, which watched them until their disappearance.
“In the past, similar space tests have already been carried out by the United States, the People’s Republic of China and India,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. to sign an agreement to prevent the installation of weapons in space “, the draft of which has been submitted to the UN,” but the United States and its allies are blocking its adoption. “
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, “Washington openly states that it does not want to commit to any obligations in space”, although the US in 2020 created the Space Administration and officially adopted a new strategy for space, one of the central goals of which is the “creation of generalized military superiority in space.” The Russian military also claims that the Pentagon is “actively developing and without any warnings testing in space state-of-the-art offensive warheads of various types, including sophisticated unmanned X-37 spacecraft” and characterizing its actions as ” incompatible with the declared purposes of the peaceful use of space “. That is why, the statement said, the Russian Ministry of Defense “is carrying out a planned activity to consolidate the defense capability, which excludes the possibility of a sudden blow to Russia’s security in space or territory by existing or future foreign space media.” ».
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