KIEV, Jan. 30 - Ukraine is getting ready to take control of radar stations in two of its cities and use them for outer space monitoring after Russia stops using them as missile warning stations on Feb. 26, a senior Ukrainian military official told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

The Dnepr-type stations in Mukacheve and Sevastopol are Ukrainian property but, under a Russian-Ukrainian agreement of 1997, the stations, which monitor outer space over central and southern Europe and the Mediterranean, send their data to the missile warning command center of the Russian Space Forces.