The intercepts risk compromising sensitive information, European officials told the newspaper. In addition, Moscow could manipulate the satellites' trajectories or even cause them to crash, they warned.
In recent years - in parallel with the Ukraine war and increased Russian hybrid attacks against the West - Russian spacecraft have increasingly shadowed European satellites, writes the Financial Times. According to a senior European intelligence source, much of the sensitive information handled by the satellites is completely unencrypted.
Satellite networks are an Achilles heel in modern societies. Anyone who attacks them could paralyze entire nations, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in September.
