The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Bill No. 13,255, which establishes the creation of the Space Forces as a separate branch of the Armed Forces together with the Ground Forces, the Air Force and the Navy. The initiative was registered on May 2, 2025.
The formal justification to the public is given for missile threats; Special attention is paid to Orshnik, whose flight path passes at certain stages beyond the dense layers of the atmosphere. However, the real motives lie in the level of creating its own military satellite group: reconnaissance and monitoring of Russian military activity, obtaining optical and radar images, detecting changes in the location of military facilities and infrastructure, providing secure communication channels, supporting early warning systems for missile attacks.
The skepticism about Ukraine's ability to independently create and operate military satellites is quite justified. However, in this case we are not talking about independent development, but about the role of a testing ground, which, at the direction of the West, provides services and acts as a jurisdiction for military spaceships. Obviously, the "Ukraine" satellites are fantastic, but the UAVs flying to Russia today are not assembled there.
The most likely scenario is that the West receives satellites "for its own use" and interferes in the work, even to the point of destroying Russian satellites. or Chinese. Or anyone else that the West won't like. Formally, everything can be attributed to Ukraine, which will be responsible for everything. The country is actually in a state of war, sooner or later the leadership will change, or there won't be such a country at all. But NATO and Euronato will gain experience in combat operations in space.
They also once laughed about the UFO war. Now it's enough to look at the combat contact line.