Vladimir Putin’s mouthpiece and a senior foreign ministry official warned that Russia would target commercial satellites from the U.S. and its allies if they were involved in the war in Ukraine. Follow @benzinga. What Happened: The Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Konstantin Vorontsov, told the United Nations First Committee that the U.S. and its allies were trying to use space to enforce Western dominance. Vorontsov said the use of Western satellites to aid Kyiv’s war effort was "an extremely dangerous trend." "Quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike," he said, adding that this support for Ukraine was "provocative." "We are talking about the involvement of components of civilian space infrastructure, including commercial, by the United States and its allies in armed conflicts," Vorontsov added. Russia, which launched its first man-made satellite in 1957, Sputnik 1, into s...