The new tool for the first time will allow the organization to monitor “extensive areas”, including maneuvers, troops and combat operations in Ukraine and near the borders of Russia with countries on the eastern flankas Bloomberg Pierre Vandier, the NATO commander for transformation told.
New resources of satellite supervision will allow many current challenges to meet. Also those that may appear as a result of a peaceful solution in Ukraine. “Today we are not sure that the Russians will stop in Ukraine,” Vandier admitted. Therefore, he said, it is important that provide Eastern European countries with intelligence information on time. – We will be able to tell them: we see you.
If the agreement on Ukraine is concluded, satellite examination will help NATO countries monitor compliance with a weapon suspension regime. Monitoring is an important part of the warranty that Kiev should receive in this case, said representatives of countries that are part of the “Coalition of Volunteers” and are planning a peace mission in Ukraine.
NATO chose the American supplier of satellite photos of Planet Labs to implement a new initiative called Sinbad (Smart Indication and Warning Broad Area Detection). It will consist in year -round scanning of the globe using high -frequency photos, and artificial intelligence will be used to detect any changes and issuing warnings.
According to one of the officials of the Alliance, Sinbad is a pilot project before a greater distribution of NATO space recognition planned for January 2026. This technology can also be used to monitor the Arcticwhich is becoming more and more important for NATO as the ambition of Russia and China increases in the region, another alliance official told Bloomberg.
NATO countries believe that Vladimir Putin will be ready to war with them within a few years. But he can also go to provocation in the Baltic countries under the pretext of “defending the Russian -speaking population” to test the strength of the alliance and the readiness of its members to defend. And without engaging in full -scale war, as Bruno Kahl, head of the German Federal Intelligence Service, says. According to him, Ukraine is for Moscow an indirect stage on the road to a clash with NATO.
