International Space Station - The collateral victim of the Russian-Ukrainian war !!

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International Space Station - the collateral victim of the Russian-Ukrainian war !!
The International Space Station, designed as a platform for astronomical and Earth observation, as a berth for small spacecraft, as a command post for operations in orbit around the Earth, has recently become a collateral victim of the Russian-Ukrainian war, as if the absurd conflict unleashed on February 24, 2022, by Russia, should affect everything people have thought, created, realized in time, with effort and for the good of humanity.
Positioned at an altitude of 350 kilometers, the International Space Station descends, every day, a few tens of meters from its orbit, and must be raised regularly. This is done with the help of the Russian space shuttle "Progress", launched by a Soyuz rocket, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the oldest and largest cosmodrome in the world, located in Kazakhstan, about 200 kilometers east of the Aral Sea, near the city Tyuratam.
International Space Station and threats from Russian officials.
In the context of Russia's war in Ukraine and with the financial and technological sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States, it seems that the Russian Federation's threats go in all directions, including the threat of abandoning the International Space Station, removing the Soyuz launcher from Kourou and banning it. the launch of Western missions in Baikonur. And all this in the conditions in which the cosmonauts, of different nationalities, continue to collaborate without incident in the station.
The most spectacular is the threat to debit the International Space Station issued several times by Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency. After Dmitry Rogozin announced his retirement from leading Roscosmos for 2024, he warned that if the ISS were to lack the strength of Russian Progress ships and the Russian segment of the ISS, it would end up in an uncontrolled manner. in the atmosphere of the Earth, and the structure of over 400 tons could fall, also according to the head of Roscosmos, on the western countries, described as war dogs.