Star Wars: Has Russia's War With Ukraine Turned Intergalactic? Russia made an unprecedented military move this month when one of its military satellites, Cosmos-2612, invaded the orbit of the Ukrainian commercial satellite, Iceye-X36, in behavior deemed "threatening" by the US State Department. Norbert Pozin, a trajectory analyst at the French space technology company Eldoria, described the mercenary maneuver as the first of its kind.