Satellites Now "Legitimate Targets" for Russian Military

The Russian Federation today served notice upon the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Radio Regulations Board, that it will now treat satellites as legitimate targets if those satellites are assisting Ukraine in the conflict with Russia.

“Russia considers these countries to have forfeited the right to protest if their satellites are jammed,”  citing documents submitted by Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to the ongoing session of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (RRB).

While Russia claimed it would avoid disrupting non-military uses of satellites, it emphasized a clear intent to counter space-based systems used to support Ukrainian forces.

Russia’s position marks a major shift in posture. It now openly refuses to address complaints over space signal interference, framing dual-use satellites as legitimate wartime infrastructure.

Moscow has hinted at this before. In October 2022, Russian diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov warned at the United Nations that commercial satellites used in armed conflicts could be targeted.

This assertion by Russia __could__ mean targeting Elon Musk's "StarLink" which the Ukraine Army is using for almost ALL of its battlefield activities.  It is widely known that if StarLink is halted, the Ukraine army will literally stop.