MOSCOW, April 12 President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin , according to the Kremlin's Telegram channel. Today, the head of state visited the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region and met there with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. «Concluding his trip to the Amur region, Vladimir Putin held working meetings with the head of the region, Vasily Orlov, and the head of the Roskosmos corporation. Dmitry Rogozin,” the message says. At the meeting, Rogozin reported to the president that during the construction of Vostochny, they managed to completely abandon supplies from abroad. >11:46ScienceRussia will be able to develop the rocket and space program, Putin said»We had one weak spot — the so-called compressed gas cylinders, which we once bought from South Korea, but I report that in the Nizhny Novgorod region with the governor, in a dialogue, they launched the production of similar tanks completely, we have completely replaced imports here, ”said the general director of Roskosmos. In everything else, as far as construction is concerned, according to him, there are no problems. Rogozin added that the high-tech welding equipment that is needed for the new Soyuz-5 rocket, managed to buy from the Chuvash company. In addition, all-Russian Soyuz-2 rockets have been flying since 2019, although the Soyuz-FG modification with the Ukrainian control system was previously used. Putin responded that the sanctions imposed by the United States on the space industry are only an attempt to contain development of Russia.
10:19The West has exhausted the possibilities of new sanctions against Russia, experts sayAfter the start of the Russian military special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the West increased sanctions pressure to Moscow. Restrictive measures are directed primarily against the banking sector and the supply of high-tech products, and enterprises of the space industry fell under them. As Putin noted, the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, but the sanctions have already dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy.
15:47Putin expects common sense to prevail in the situation with sanctions
