Nieuwsuur: European countries submit a complaint to UN to Russian disruption of satellites

Eight European countries submit a complaint to the UN on Monday due to Russian disruptions of European satellites. This is apparent from documents those News hour has seen. The countries, including the Netherlands, want Russia to stop sabotaging the satellites and submit the complaint to the International Telecommunication Union (ITW), which falls under the UN. In addition to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Finland France and the Netherlands, the formal signatories of the complaint, another seventeen EU member states support the complaint.

Since about a year, various European countries have had to deal with Russian sabotage. The most striking example was such a year ago, when propagand images appeared on the TV channel BabyTV in Belgium, Scandinavia, Portugal and the Netherlands. Marching soldiers, tanks, tanks and the Russian intelligence service FSB appeared on the child -safe certified channel that sang « glory, glory, you are my Russia. » The attack was aimed at disrupting Ukrainian television. The fact that the Netherlands was also shown Russian propaganda was 'ancillary damage', the Space Systems department at the Royal Dutch Aerospace Center (NLR) said earlier to NRC.

Propaganda on BabyTV

BabyTV is broadcast by the French company Eutelsat via a satellite that was sent into space in 2022. This type of satellites is also used for ship and aviation communication. Through the Russian sabotage Navigation systems get confusedwhich means that planes and ships do not know where they are. In the Netherlands, the number of reports about disturbed GPS signals increased considerably in the past year. According to figures from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT), Dutch pilots made 1,318 reports in 2024, in 2023 there were only 163, reports News hour.

Both Eutelsat and SES, a satellite provider from Sweden and Luxembourg, investigated the disturbances. The SES study showed that the sabotage came from the occupied peninsula Krim and from the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. Russia has so far denied the UN to be involved in the sabotage. Following Nieuwsuur have France and Sweden, where Eutelsat and SES are located, this week for the first time conversations with the Russian delegation at the UN in Geneva.

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