[10][11] In 2005 management of the radars was transferred from the military to the civil Ukrainian National Space Agency and the rent increased to $1.3 million, although Ukraine asked for more.

[10] In 2007 the commander of the Russian Space Forces, Vladimir Popovkin, said that Russia intended to duplicate or replace foreign radar stations as it could not rely on them in times of crisis.

In addition Russia said that the data from Sevastopol was unreliable due to interference from unlicensed radio broadcasts from fishing boats in the Black Sea.

[16] Data from Ukraine stopped on 26 February 2009 and Russia declared that a new Voronezh radar station in Armavir had begun operation on the same date, replacing the lost coverage.

[21] This is to offset the threat of the NATO radar site in Romania, as the Mk-41 launchers there are capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles,[22] which Russia says violates the 1987 INF Treaty.