MOSCOW, February 18 At the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked Foreign Ministers of China and India Wang Yi and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to urge their leaders to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from his alleged plans to place nuclear weapons in space, the New York Times reported.
«Because Putin has clearly shown disdain for the United States, Blinken told them (the foreign ministers of China and India — ed.) It is up to the leaders of China and India, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narenda Modi, to dissuade him from could turn into a disaster,” the publication writes, referring to Russia’s alleged planned deployment of weapons in space capable of causing a nuclear explosion there.
According to sources, in a conversation with colleagues, Blinken allegedly argued that a nuclear explosion in space would disable not only American, but also Indian and Chinese satellites. In addition, they were talking about a complete failure of communications systems, which would entail the collapse of all satellites, starting with Starlink and ending with reconnaissance satellites.
Earlier, ABC, citing sources, reported that US legislators could have been told at a secret briefing about the Russian Federation’s alleged plans to “place nuclear weapons in space” for use against satellites. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the White House, by announcing a closed briefing on a “serious threat to national security,” is trying to encourage the US Congress to vote for a bill to allocate money to Ukraine.
Moscow has previously repeatedly pointed out that Russia, together with other countries, in particular the PRC, stands for preventing an arms race in space and preserving it for peaceful purposes. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted earlier that the United States and its allies are taking steps to implement the installation of weapons in space and the use of outer space for combat operations not only for defensive purposes, they do not stop trying to position space as a new arena of rivalry and conflicts between states, as the main opponents are Russia and China.