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Kosmos 2612 ICEYE-X36 approach

🇷🇺🇫🇮🇺🇦 SATELLITE WARS IN SPACE -> Russia to take down western spy satellites? Russia launched mysterious military satellites into Space on 16 April 2026 from Plesetsk aboard a Soyuz-2.1b The exact payload is secret, but recent activity points at counter-satellite weapons. -> The mysterious Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is nearing the Finnish commercial spy sattelite ICEYE-X36 dangerously. Ukraine is known to use the ICEYE for targeting and Russia was recently hit with deep strikes, that relied on sattelite data. The aggressive approach started in exact this timeframe. ⁉️ The important questions are: - Did Russia deploy anti satellite weapons to space? - Is Putin willing to take down targeting satellites to enforce his red lines? We’ll find out soon enough, it could be that the satellite just closes in as a warning and stays there … but what then? -> Taking down a commercially Finnish satellite in space certainly would be an interesting escalation, especially since it’s not a NATO case because it’s not on nato ground. Keep in mind these maneuvers are fuel intensive and the Russian satellite can’t use so much fuel for nothing! The satellite will run out of fuel and just be bricked without a purpose, if they just play games. So these maneuvers are meant for something! 1/

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Kosmos 2612 ICEYE-X36 approach

🇷🇺🇫🇮🇺🇦 SATELLITE WARS IN SPACE -> Russia to take down western spy satellites? Russia launched mysterious military satellites into Space on 16 April 2026 from Plesetsk aboard a Soyuz-2.1b The exact payload is secret, but recent activity points at counter-satellite weapons. -> The mysterious Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is nearing the Finnish commercial spy sattelite ICEYE-X36 dangerously. Ukraine is known to use the ICEYE for targeting and Russia was recently hit with deep strikes, that relied on sattelite data. The aggressive approach started in exact this timeframe. ⁉️ The important questions are: - Did Russia deploy anti satellite weapons to space? - Is Putin willing to take down targeting satellites to enforce his red lines? We’ll find out soon enough, it could be that the satellite just closes in as a warning and stays there … but what then? -> Taking down a commercially Finnish satellite in space certainly would be an interesting escalation, especially since it’s not a NATO case because it’s not on nato ground. Keep in mind these maneuvers are fuel intensive and the Russian satellite can’t use so much fuel for nothing! The satellite will run out of fuel and just be bricked without a purpose, if they just play games. So these maneuvers are meant for something! 1/

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