PARIS, Oct 5 — Russian mercenary group Wagner in 2022 signed a contract with a Chinese firm to acquire two satellites and use their images, aiding its intelligence work as the...
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The satellite images were also used to assist Wagner’s operations in Africa and even its failed mutiny in June which has led now to the de-facto break up of the group followed by the death of Prigozhin and other key figures in an air crash in August, a European security source told AFP. There is, however, no mention of ordering images of Russian territory in the contract and the supply of such pictures could not be independently confirmed by AFP.
Gregory Falco, aerospace researcher at Cornell University in the United States, told AFP that Wagner’s use of the Chinese technology showed Russia’s limits in the sector despite its historic reputation as a great space power going back to the USSR. On April 12 the State Department also issued sanctions against 80 entities and individuals who it said continue to enable and facilitate Russian aggression, including Head Aerospace Technology, which it described as a “satellite image reseller that supplied satellite imagery of locations in Ukraine to entities affiliated with PMC Wagner and Yevgeny Prigozhin.”
According to AEOW, Mechetin also worked during his career with a unit of the Russian army in charge of material support for the fighting forces, and which notably supplied weapons and ammunition to Russian military intelligence the GRU during the invasion of Crimea in 2014.
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