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Russia’s Defense Minister Doubts Star Wars of China
The report on the launch of China’s ballistic missile that, according to the U.S. intelligence, hit an old satellite of China is strongly exaggerated rumors, RIA Novosti quoted Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov as saying.
”I’ve heard those rather abstract reports, and I’m very much afraid there is no said basis below them, the anti-satellite one,” Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov expressed his attitude to the information about China’s test of anti-satellite weapons.
“I fear it wasn't the case. Or perhaps, I don’t fear, but it is very good that it wasn't so,” the minister specified.
Ivanov also emphasized that Russia has been always opposing space militarization and will continue to stand against it in future. Apart from the United States, Australia also stepped in to criticize China for testing.
On January 11, the ground-launched ballistic missile destroyed an old satellite of China that was on the 800km orbit, the U.S. intelligence reported. According to mass media, ballistic missiles were last tested to hit satellites in the United States in 1985.
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