Russian officials acknowledged a launch had taken place including a spacecraft, but it called the US' claims "fake news." ...

May 22 (UPI) --Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Russia "likely" has launched a "counter space weapon" capable of threatening U.S. government satellites. Responding to a question from ...

TASS/. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov rejected as fake news the Pentagon’s claim that Russia launched a counter space weapon, noting that Moscow was against placing strike ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine ... Moscow's alleged space weapon efforts. On February 5, 2022, 20 days before Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Cosmos 2553 was launched from the Plesetsk ...

The Pentagon subsequently stated that Russia had launched an anti-satellite vehicle into orbit on 16 May 2024: "Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a ...