Russia publishes satellite images of West military headquarters
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The West's decision-making headquarters were imaged and published by the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
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One of the satellite images of the Pentagon.
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, published Tuesday the coordinates of Western military headquarters, including the Pentagon and where the NATO summit is being held, saying Western satellite operators were working for Ukraine. In response, the space agency faced a cyberattack.
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, told RIA Novosti that the "entire conglomerate of private and state orbital groupings is now working exclusively for our enemy."
The military-industrial complex has not been too secretive about its continuous sending of weapons and technologies to Ukraine. Elon Musk, a billionaire engineer and a private military contractor that works closely with the Pentagon, recently sent thousands of espionage-embedded terminals to Ukraine from his company, Starlink, which is an internet provider.
Maxar, a US satellite imagery company that also works closely with the US Department of Defense, has several times published images that it has taken over Ukraine and Russia since before February 24, 2022.
"Today, the NATO summit opens in Madrid, at which Western countries will declare Russia their worst enemy," Rogozin wrote on his Telegram social media channel. "Roscosmos publishes satellite photographs of the summit venue and the very 'decision centres' that support Ukrainian nationalists."
Images of the coordinates included the NATO Summit in Madrid, the Pentagon, the White House in Washington, British governmental buildings in central London, the German Chancellery and the Reichstag parliament in Berlin, NATO headquarters in Brussels, the French president's residence, and other buildings in Paris.
Retaliation?
After the publication of the images, Roscosmos' website was hit by a DDoS (Distributed denial-of-service) attack, according to Dmitry Strugovets, spokesman for the agency.
"After the publication by Roscosmos of satellite images of 'decision-making centers,' the website of the state corporation was hit by a DDoS attack," Strugovets wrote on Telegram.
However, the attack came from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Strugovets noted.
Before the launching of the NATO summit in Madrid, the Russian agency released images, taken by Resurs-P observation satellite, of the West's decision-making centers.
