Eight European countries, including Ukraine, have lodged a complaint with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the UN, accusing Russia of prolonged interference with European satellite communications.
The complaint, signed by Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, France and the Netherlands, was sent to the highest international body dealing with satellite communications: the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which falls under the UN, Ukrinform reports, citing NOS.
Additionally, seventeen other EU member states and the United Kingdom supported the complaint.
The countries demand that Russia immediately cease these acts of sabotage.
For a year now, several European countries have been experiencing disruptions to satellites from the two main European satellite providers: Eutelsat and SES. Europe uses these satellites for radio and TV communications and for navigation in aviation.
The most striking disruption occurred last spring. Then, Russian war propaganda suddenly appeared twice on television channel BabyTV in the Netherlands and in other European countries. During the same period, propaganda images appeared several times on Ukrainian television channels.
Eutelsat, based in France, and SES from Sweden and Luxembourg investigated the disruptions last year. They concluded that the disruptions came from the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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Source: Ukraine, seven EU countries file complaint to UN over Russian satellite jamming – media
