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The Main Intelligence Directorate has explained how the 'People's Satellite' project run by the Prytula Foundation is helping to destroy Russian targets worth billions of dollars

Stanislav Sereda
Stanislav Sereda Journalist
The Main Intelligence Directorate has explained how the 'People's Satellite' project run by the Prytula Foundation is helping to destroy Russian targets worth billions of dollars
The Prytula Foundation’s ‘People’s Satellite’
Since September 2022, space intelligence specialists from Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate have received over 5,900 radar satellite images thanks to the ‘People’s Satellite’, which was funded four years ago by the ‘Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation’.

This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate.

They explained that intelligence officers receive ‘fresh’ satellite images daily and use the data to track targets in territories temporarily occupied by Russia and on Russian territory, to identify military targets, plan their destruction, and assess the consequences of strikes.

“In modern warfare, access to space technology plays a crucial role, and it is the ‘People’s Satellite’ that has become Ukraine’s first sharp eyes in orbit — we see where to aim, we understand what is best to strike with, and we have control over the consequences of strikes. The Russian aggressor’s multi-billion-dollar losses — these are the results, including those from the ‘People’s Satellite’, which strengthen our resilience, and this systematic work continues,” says Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

The Main Intelligence Directorate noted that the SAR radar technology used on the satellite allows images to be obtained regardless of the time of day, cloud cover or weather conditions, and the resolution of individual images can reach up to 0.25 m/pixel — a single image is capable of covering an area of up to 225 km².

‘People’s Satellite’: what is known about it

On 18 August 2022, the “Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation” announced the purchase of a satellite for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The project was implemented using 600 million hryvnias raised by Ukrainians for “Bayraktars” — this money was not spent because the Turkish company provided these drones free of charge

Andriy Yusov, spokesperson for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, explained in a comment to hromadske at the time that prior to this, Ukraine had been actively exchanging various information with partners, including satellite data. However, access to the satellite will enhance intelligence capabilities.

The Prytula Foundation noted that foreign partners provide Ukraine with satellite imagery, but with a delay. And thanks to Ukraine having purchased the satellite, the process of data transfer from the moment the image is taken to the moment it is received directly by military units is reduced to a few hours.

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