Russia accused Ukraine of receiving information from private Western satellite companies through NATO.
Russian space agency Roscosmos shared satellite images of the building in the Spanish capital of Madrid where the NATO summit is taking place, identifying it as a “decision-making center” that “supports Ukrainian nationalists,” Pravda reported Tuesday.
Roscosmos further shared coordinates of other “decision-making centers” in the US, France, UK and Germany, including the Pentagon.
This comes as the NATO summit, a three-day meeting of leaders of 30 NATO member states and allied nations, takes place in Madrid, and are expected to label Russia a major threat and decide on aid to Ukraine.
Satellites: Eyes in the sky on both sides?
But Ukraine is also being accused of benefiting from satellites.
According to Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, private Western satellite firms are sending information for NATO and, consequently, to Ukraine, RIA reported.
In an interview with RIA, Rogozin specifically called out Maxar for doing this and also alleged the formation of a single data cloud that NATO is supposedly using to send information to the Ukrainian military.
This also follows allegations made by Russia that privately US satellites took pictures of Snake Island in the Black Sea prior to Ukraine launching a series of strikes on the island.