Except it DID NOT happen.
According to Jim Oberg, the UPI article is based upon a poor translation of a Russian news piece. The Russian Novi piece stated something on the order of if debris from that test endangered the ISS, it would be moved with the move controlled from the Space Operations Center in Moscow. UPI mistranslated the "would be" as "was" -- which is an easy error to make, but is nevertheless, sloppy as all get out.
Why does UPI print a story without verifying it?