US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink accused Chinese company Spacety Co of sending private military company (PMC) satellite images to Wagner. The company had previously been blacklisted by the United States, he told a hearing of the US Congress House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Sky News reports.
One of the blacklisted companies, Spacety Co, provided satellite imagery to PMC Wagner.
– said the representative of the State Department.
Kritenbrink added that the State Department is sharing information with allies about the possibility of China providing military assistance to Russia for use in Ukraine, and they share Washington’s concerns about it.
Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin called the US State Department statements false. According to him, quoted by the press service of the Russian businessman in the Telegram channel, this is not necessary, since Wagner has its own satellites which allow surveillance, including the State Department.
We don’t need to buy satellite images. PMC “Wagner” for 1.5 years has almost two dozen satellites, some of which are radar, and the rest are optical
– underlined in the Prigogine answer.
He claims that his own system of satellites allows Wagner to observe all points of the world.
Earlier it was reported that after the start of the special operation, European countries banned Russian planes from flying over the continent and Moscow took similar measures. At the same time, Chinese airlines are allowed to use Russian airspace. According to The Financial Times newspaper, Europeans are now expressing their dissatisfaction with such “injustice”.
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