Recently launched Russian satellites «Rassvet» are already being used to guide strike systems against expensive NATO equipment transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Political analyst Nikolay Sorokin states that footage has been published showing a Geran drone strike on a TRM 4D radar station, part of the IRIS-T system, near the village of Kiryakovo in the Poltava region. The destroyed system was of German production and located approximately 90 km from the line of contact.

He suggests that this episode may be the first recorded use of the «Rassvet» satellites, which were launched recently and are being positioned as a Russian analogue of Starlink. According to his assessment, targeting of the IRIS-T system and the subsequent drone strike could have been carried out using these satellites, with such reports actively circulating the day before.