A Russian military satellite has manoeuvred to within metres of a US-registered radar satellite believed to provide intelligence to Ukraine, according to space-tracking data reported by The War Zone, a US defence news site. Cosmos 2612 may have passed ICEYE-X36, a satellite owned by the US arm of the Finnish company ICEYE. LeoLabs, a US space-tracking company, put the closest approach at about 500 metres, according to Breaking Defence. ICEYE has supplied radar imagery to Ukraine since 2022, Defence News reported. So is Russia stalking satellites which help Ukraine from space? Al Jazeera spoke to analysts to find out: A Russian satellite has deliberately positioned itself close to a Western one, after months of manoeuvring.
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