Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos State CorporationMINSK, Apr 17Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said that Europe itself would eventually suffer from the sanctions it initiated against Roscosmos more than the Russian corporation, and stressed that after a period of restrictions, a period of restoration of relations would come, but the West would have to negotiate on Russian terms. «I am sure that cooperation will be restored in one form or another, but it will be restored with other accents. Because now we will work primarily with those states that have taken either a sound position, or at least a neutral one. And when the dust settle down, those who imposed sanctions will be forced to negotiate with us on our terms,» Rogozin said in an interview with the Belarusian ONT TV channel shown on Sunday. jpg» />Rogozin compared ESA's withdrawal from the Russian lunar program to «a woman with a cart» He stressed that sanctions are a gun that shoots in two directions. «Who will be hit by more shells? From my point of view, Europe, which initiated these sanctions, will suffer more than Roscosmos,» Rogozin stressed. The head of Roscosmos noted that the Russian side would lose «time in terms of implementing some dreams of our space enthusiasts to implement missions in deep space. «But from the point of view of our national programs, everything will be implemented in the time frame as it should have been,» he stressed. Rogozin said that space professionals in the West understand that it's crazy, and breaking ties with Roskosmos is «terrible.» According to him, he knows such people in both NASA and SpaceX, in European countries.
Russia needs more satellites, not rockets and engines, Rogozin said. “This destroys their own plans, hopes and dreams. They understand that these are unforgivable actions of bureaucrats. After all, those who announce sanctions have nothing to do with space. These are some anonymous guys in the European Commission… You won’t understand who they were by their education… They are also corrupt officials… And when the opportunity came to recoup Russia and Belarus, they do it with pleasure, because they understand what it is diverts from them some attacks against their own criminal acts,» the head of Roskosmos emphasized. After Russia launched a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the United States and the European Union announced the imposition of sanctions against the Russian space industry. Roskosmos has asked NASA, the European and Canadian space agencies to take steps to lift restrictions on Russian enterprises RCC Progress, Russian Space Systems and the parent institute TsNIIMash. According to Rogozin, without these three organizations it is impossible to discuss the safe operation of the International Space Station (ISS).
