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That probably has more to do with test ban treaties than lack of will power or interest.

Amp'ed up laser pointers are not that complex a hardware, and not that bulky either. And if the sats are close together, you do not need that much power in a laser to simply fry infrared sensors or the like, that weren't designed to deal with anything like the directed energy of even a decent...

There probably isn't any publicly available info. But I expect that the lasers are part of other Russian sats that have official purposes and specs that leave the offensive weapons/tools they have on board out of public press releases.

The laser is on one of the Russian sats, not on the ground.