From our correspondent in Moscow
"Goldsmith's work"
: the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Choïgou, did not hide his joy on Tuesday, finally recognizing, after a day of silence, the test firing, carried out the day before, in order to destroy a satellite launched in September 1982, during Soviet times, and disabled for several years. The head of diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, has also come out of the woods to deny the
“hypocritical”
accusations
of the Americans according to which Russia would have endangered the International Space Station (ISS) with the debris resulting from this test. Lavrov also said that the United States aims
"to establish military domination in the cosmos
.
"
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Russia, too, has been preparing for confrontations in space for a long time.
This test testifies to the persistence of these efforts: Moscow had not carried out any shots with destruction of an object in orbit since 1982. According to Dmitry Stefanovich, security expert at the Academy
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