During meetings with his Chinese and Indian counterparts on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern about Russia's development of anti-satellite weapons in space.
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| US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference, February 16. (Source: Reuters) |
Speaking to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during a bilateral meeting on February 16 on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington is concerned that Moscow is developing anti-satellite weapons in space.
Earlier, a US official also said that this issue was raised at Mr. Blinken's meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, also at a security conference held in Germany.
In meetings with the Chinese and Indian foreign ministers, Mr. Blinken "stressed that Moscow's pursuit of this capability is a matter of concern."
On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov affirmed that the US has not contacted Russia since rumors about new Russian nuclear weapons in space appeared, but Moscow is still ready to cooperate in developing anti-satellite weapons if there is any initiative from Washington.
Previously, NBC News quoted sources familiar with the matter as saying that Russia is developing a space weapon that can destroy US satellites.
Sources say the weapon is not yet operational, but the intelligence gathered by the US is enough for Representative Mike Turner, Chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, to ask the White House to declassify information about the “serious national security threat”.
It is not known whether it is a space-based nuclear weapon in the conventional sense of the term.
Many experts suspect it is a nuclear-powered satellite carrying an electronic weapon that could paralyze satellites to disrupt everything on the ground, from weather forecasts to communications and global economic activity.
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