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Honestly, I'm kinda okay with them spending money and resources on this. Better to spend resources doing this than building missiles and tanks. My only concern is that it may be serving a secondary purpose for testing new ICBM launch systems.
Space programs have always been part military.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/military-rockets-launched-space-age
Luna-25 launched on a Soyuz rocket, which is actually derived from an ICBM in the R-7 family. There aren't any active ICBMs in that family anymore, and it seems like their newer liquid fueled ICBMs use different fuels and engines. They could share avionics, structures, and upper stages, but the heavy lifting is done pretty differently.
*As far as I can tell from memory and a quick Wikipedia scan
Considering the R7 ICBM that this rocket is based off was first tested in the late 1950s I kinda doubt it's of much concern