Russian military satellites approached Finnish radar satellite supplying Ukraine

Four Russian military satellites came within 13 kilometers of a radar satellite operated by a Finnish company that supplies Ukraine with battlefield imagery. ‘Legitimate targets,’ Moscow said in 2022.

Last month, four Russian military satellites — Kosmos-2610, Kosmos-2611, Kosmos-2612, and Kosmos-2613 — altered their orbits and moved toward ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite that has been supplying data to Ukraine’s military since 2022, according to a May 22 report by the analytics firm Integrity ISR.