Commercial Service: The Russian Federation buys satellite images of objects in Ukraine from US companies - GUR

Earlier, journalists reported that far strikes of Russia with the help of winged missiles are likely to be applied using satellite images provided by US companies. The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) Kirill Budanov suggested that Russia bought satellite images of objects in Ukraine from US companies. He reported this in a comment to the publication "Public". "All countries buy, and we are including," he said.

According to Budanov's statement, such actions are a purely commercial service. "They used to use commercial pictures before," the head of GUR stated. It should be noted that The Atlantic wrote that far strikes of Russia with the use of winged missiles are made using satellite images provided by US companies. According to the military source, quoted in the article, "the sequence is clear": the satellite removes the place, then after a few days or weeks the rocket land.

Sometimes another satellite is used in the next step to obtain additional images, perhaps to evaluate the level of damage. "The number of coincidences when the images follow the strokes is too big to be accidental," the source said. The article also provides several examples where a request for shots of objects in Ukraine coincided with the fact of struck on them.

"Suspicious cases are accumulated, and since many satellite images offers a list of archival images indicating dates and coordinates, you can view tens of thousands of images made in Ukraine and notice suspicious patterns," the article reads. The publication notes that the satellite images were also taken before strokes in urban areas-in Lviv it happened shortly before the 2nd. "He was also amazed.