Putin dismissed U.S. accusations that Moscow is developing space-based anti-satellite weapons. (document)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he opposed launching nuclear weapons into space, rejecting U.S. accusations that Moscow is developing space-based anti-satellite weapons.
Washington last week expressed concern that Russia was developing the system, while saying it did not pose a direct threat to humans on Earth.
“We have always firmly opposed the deployment of nuclear weapons in space,” Putin said during a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
He called the accusations part of “a protest from the West.”
Shoigu said Russia “does not have” the system that Washington accuses it of developing.
Putin said that Russia “has repeatedly proposed strengthening joint cooperation in the (space) field, but for some reason the West has not raised this topic again”.
Russia’s offensive in Ukraine and huge Western sanctions have severely hit Moscow’s space sector and upended space cooperation.
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