Russia Has Launched a Satellite to Spy on Ukraine (Photo)

On August 9th, Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit from southern Kazakhstan.

This happened just three weeks after President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged to work together against the West, Reuters reports with the reference to Russian space agency. 

" The remote Khayyam sensing satellite, named after the 11th Century Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, was launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and entered orbit successfully", the message reads.

Meanwhile, the Iranian satellite launched by Moscow may also provide Iran unprecedented capabilities to monitor potential military targets in Israel and the wider Middle East. Although, Putin primarily seeks to ise it for his own military goals in Ukraine.

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