Russia receiving weather data from ‘western’ countries

March 22 Reuters- Russian agencies are continuing to receive nearly instantaneous meteorological data from Western and other governments, which some weapons experts say could be used to plan a chemical or biological attack in Ukraine, Reuters reported Tuesday.   

Washington and its allies have warned that Moscow could be planning to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.   

Still, weather data from some of those same countries – including the United States and Britain – is making its way to Russian agencies. The data includes near real-time measurements of wind speed and direction, sunlight, precipitation and other factors that could prove crucial in planning a biological or chemical weapons attack, the report read.   

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), an intergovernmental organisation based in Germany, says it continues to provide data feeds to Russian organisations, even as at least 3 other bodies in Europe have chosen to stop.