Izvestia: “Peresvet” combat laser is designed to disable satellites 
building satellites and is one of the echelons of anti-space defense. Military expert Dmitry Kornev told Izvestia about this.
The publication drew attention to government procurement documents, in which the technical position of the secret “Peresvet” 14TS034 differs by only one digit from the anti-satellite complex 14TS033 “Nudol”. Also in the claim of the Ministry of Defense against the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Federal Nuclear Center – All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics” (RFNC-VNIIEF) “Peresvet” is directly called “a redeployed complex for suppressing optical-electronic reconnaissance and remote sensing of the Earth dual-purpose”. p>
Kornev explained that anti-satellite weapons come with fire and functional damage. So, “Nudol” is designed to physically destroy spacecraft, which was demonstrated on November 16, when the Defense Ministry reported on the defeat of the inoperative Soviet satellite “Celina-D”.
“Peresvet”, according to analyst Vladislav Shurygin, designed to blind reconnaissance aircraft and satellites in orbits up to 500 kilometers during a threatened period. He explained that the laser will not allow the reconnaissance satellites to determine the exact coordinates of the mobile Yars, and without such information the enemy will not be able to destroy the missiles before they start, which guarantees the inevitability of a Russian retaliatory strike with full-fledged volleys of the Strategic Missile Forces divisions.
In June 2020, analyst Bart Hendricks, in the publication of the American edition of The Space Review, suggested that Peresvet was designed to dazzling, not blinding, enemy satellites tracking the positions of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles. His article, based on an analysis of open sources on the web and satellite imagery, argues that “overexposure causes optical and electro-optical devices to temporarily lose their detection capabilities, filling them with light that is brighter than what they are trying to display,” while “Blindness causes irreparable damage to such systems.” “I don’t want to go into details in this part, it’s just not the time. But experts will understand that the presence of such combat systems multiplies Russia's capabilities in the area of its security, “the head of state said at the time.