Meteorological data can be used for military purposes.
On Tuesday, March 22, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), based in Germany, decided to immediately suspend licenses of Russian users and suspend the bilateral cooperation agreement with Russia's leading meteorological agency for data exchange.
This is reported by Reuters.
Earlier, EUMETSAT announced that it was stopping sending data from EU satellites to Russia and Belarus on the instructions of the European Commission. But this intergovernmental organization continued to transmit to the aggressor state and its satellite information from other European satellites, as well as meteorological observations from governments around the world.
After the United States and its allies warned that Moscow could plan the use of chemical or biological weapons, it was decided to immediately suspend cooperation.
Military experts argue that there is a risk of meteorological data being used for military purposes, in particular for planning chemical and biological attacks prohibited by international law.
meteorological data so that it is not self-defeating,” said Philippa Lenzos, biohazards expert and senior lecturer at King's College London.
Chemical weapons expert and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge Hamish de Bretton-Gordon emphasized that weather data is “absolutely decisive” in the use of chemical and biological weapons to ensure that gas and pathogens are directed to the chosen targets.
Recall that the White House denied Russian fakes about biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine, and also warned that if the Russian Federation tries to use chemical or biological what weapons against the citizens of Ukraine, the United States will respond.
