The Intergovernmental European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) announced the immediate revocation of licenses of Russian users and the termination of bilateral cooperation with Russian meteorologists, including data exchange and training.

Western experts believe that weather information, transmitted almost in real time, can be used by Moscow for military purposes during a special operation in Ukraine. Earlier, at least three more European meteorological departments stopped cooperating with the Russian side.

EUMETSAT now manages the technical infrastructure to receive real-time data from various satellites. Even before the official decision on Tuesday, EUMETSAT announced that it had stopped transmitting data from EU satellites to Russia and Belarus in accordance with the instructions of the European Commission, but continued to broadcast data from other European satellites, as well as data on meteorological observations from relevant agencies around the world.